Quadratic twists of elliptic curves and class numbers
Abstract
For positive rank elliptic curves , we employ ideal class pairings for quadratic twists with a suitable ``small -height'' rational point, to obtain effective class number lower bounds. For the curves with rank this gives representing an improvement to the classical lower bound of Goldfeld, Gross and Zagier when . We prove that the number of twists with such a point (resp. with such a point and rank under the Parity Conjecture) is We give infinitely many cases where . These results can be viewed as an analogue of the classical estimate of Gouv\^ea and Mazur for the number of rank quadratic twists, where in addition we obtain ``log-power'' improvements to the Goldfeld-Gross-Zagier class number lower bound.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.01063,
title = {Quadratic twists of elliptic curves and class numbers},
author = {Michael Griffin and Ken Ono and Wei-Lun Tsai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01063},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
We correct minor typographical errors, including the formula in the abstract and equation (1.3)