English

Heegner points at Eisenstein primes and twists of elliptic curves

Number Theory 2017-11-29 v3

Abstract

Given an elliptic curve EE over Q\mathbb{Q}, a celebrated conjecture of Goldfeld asserts that a positive proportion of its quadratic twists should have analytic rank 0 (resp. 1). We show this conjecture holds whenever EE has a rational 3-isogeny. We also prove the analogous result for the sextic twists of jj-invariant 0 curves (Mordell curves). To prove these results, we establish a general criterion for the non-triviality of the pp-adic logarithm of Heegner points at an Eisenstein prime pp, in terms of the relative pp-class numbers of certain number fields and then apply this criterion to the special case p=3p=3. As a by-product, we also prove the 3-part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for many elliptic curves of jj-invariant 0.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06687,
  title  = {Heegner points at Eisenstein primes and twists of elliptic curves},
  author = {Daniel Kriz and Chao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06687},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

include statements for abelian varieties of GL(2)-type; the proofs remain the same