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On a conjecture of Agashe

Number Theory 2021-02-26 v1

Abstract

Let E/QE/\mathbb{Q} be an optimal elliptic curve, D-D be a negative fundamental discriminant coprime to the conductor NN of E/QE/\mathbb{Q} and let ED/QE^{-D}/\mathbb{Q} be the twist of E/QE/\mathbb{Q} by D-D. A conjecture of Agashe predicts that if ED/QE^{-D}/\mathbb{Q} has analytic rank 00, then the square of the order of the torsion subgroup of ED/QE^{-D}/\mathbb{Q} divides the product of the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of ED/QE^{-D}/\mathbb{Q} and the orders of the arithmetic component groups of ED/QE^{-D}/\mathbb{Q}, up to a power of 22. This conjecture can be viewed as evidence for the second part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptic curves of analytic rank zero. We provide a proof of a slightly more general statement without using the optimality hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.2102.12618,
  title  = {On a conjecture of Agashe},
  author = {Mentzelos Melistas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12618},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

16 pages. Accepted for publication in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc