Local and global densities for Weierstrass models of elliptic curves
Abstract
We prove local results on the -adic density of elliptic curves over with different reduction types, together with global results on densities of elliptic curves over with specified reduction types at one or more (including infinitely many) primes. These global results include: the density of integral Weierstrass equations which are minimal models of semistable elliptic curves over (that is, elliptic curves with square-free conductor) is , the same as the density of square-free integers; the density of semistable elliptic curves over is ; the density of integral Weierstrass equations which have square-free discriminant is , which is the same (except for a different factor at the prime ) as the density of monic integral cubic polynomials with square-free discriminant (and agrees with a previous result of Baier and Browning for short Weierstrass equations); and the density of elliptic curves over with square-free minimal discriminant is . The local results derive from a detailed analysis of Tate's Algorithm, while the global ones are obtained through the use of the Ekedahl Sieve, as developed by Poonen, Stoll, and Bhargava.
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@article{arxiv.2003.08454,
title = {Local and global densities for Weierstrass models of elliptic curves},
author = {J. E. Cremona and M. Sadek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08454},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
32 pages. Revised with minor corrections after refereeing; now includes SageMath Jupyter notebooks to verify some algebraic computations