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Explicit Sato-Tate type distribution for a family of $K3$ surfaces

Number Theory 2022-07-05 v1

Abstract

In the 1960's, Birch proved that the traces of Frobenius for elliptic curves taken at random over a large finite field is modeled by the semicircular distribution (i.e. the usual Sato-Tate for non-CM elliptic curves). In analogy with Birch's result, a recent paper by Ono, the author, and Saikia proved that the limiting distribution of the normalized Frobenius traces Aλ(p)A_{\lambda}(p) of a certain family of K3K3 surfaces XλX_\lambda with generic Picard rank 1919 is the O(3)O(3) distribution. This distribution, which we denote by 14πf(t),\frac{1}{4\pi}f(t), is quite different from the semicircular distribution. It is supported on [3,3][-3,3] and has vertical asymptotes at t=±1.t=\pm1. Here we make this result explicit. We prove that if p5p\geq 5 is prime and 3a<b3,-3\leq a<b\leq 3, then #{λFp:Aλ(p)[a,b]}p14πabf(t)dt110.84p1/4. \left|\frac{\#\{\lambda\in\mathbb{F}_p :A_{\lambda}(p)\in[a,b]\}}{p}-\frac{1}{4\pi}\int_a^b f(t)dt\right|\leq \frac{110.84}{p^{1/4}}. As a consequence, we are able to determine when a finite field Fp\mathbb{F}_p is large enough for the discrete histograms to reach any given height near t=±1.t=\pm1. To obtain these results, we make use of the theory of Rankin-Cohen brackets in the theory of harmonic Maass forms.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01597,
  title  = {Explicit Sato-Tate type distribution for a family of $K3$ surfaces},
  author = {Hasan Saad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01597},
  year   = {2022}
}