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From the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to Nagao's conjecture

Number Theory 2021-06-03 v3

Abstract

Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q} with discriminant ΔE\Delta_E. For primes pp of good reduction, let NpN_p be the number of points modulo pp and write Np=p+1apN_p=p+1-a_p. In 1965, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer formulated a conjecture which implies limx1logxpxpΔEaplogpp=r+12,\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{1}{\log x}\sum_{\substack{p\leq x\\ p\nmid \Delta_{E}}}\frac{a_p\log p}{p}=-r+\frac{1}{2}, where rr is the order of the zero of the LL-function LE(s)L_{E}(s) of EE at s=1s=1, which is predicted to be the Mordell-Weil rank of E(Q)E(\mathbb{Q}). We show that if the above limit exits, then the limit equals r+1/2-r+1/2. We also relate this to Nagao's conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2105.10805,
  title  = {From the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to Nagao's conjecture},
  author = {Seoyoung Kim and M. Ram Murty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.10805},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

23 pages, with an appendix by Andrew V. Sutherland