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Quadratic twists of tiling number elliptic curves

Number Theory 2024-05-21 v1

Abstract

A positive integer nn is called a tiling number if the equilateral triangle can be dissected into nk2nk^2 congruent triangles for some integer kk. An integer n>3n>3 is tiling number if and only if at least one of the elliptic curves E(±n):±ny2=x(x1)(x+3)E^{(\pm n)}:\pm ny^2=x(x-1)(x+3) has positive Mordell-Weil rank. Let AA denote one of the two curves. In this paper, using Waldspurger formula and an induction method, for n3,7mod24n\equiv 3,7\mod 24 positive square-free, as well as some other residue classes, we express the parity of analytic Sha of AA in terms of the genus number g(m):=#2Cl(Q(m))g(m):=\#2\mathrm{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-m})) as mm runs over factors of nn. Together with 22-descent method which express dimF2Sel2(A/Q)/A[2]\mathrm{dim}_{\mathbb{F}_2}\mathrm{Sel}_2(A/\mathbb{Q})/A[2] in terms of the corank of a matrix of F2\mathbb{F}_2-coefficients, we show that for n3,7mod24n\equiv 3,7\mod 24 positive square-free, the analytic Sha of AA being odd is equivalent to that Sel2(A/Q)/A[2]\mathrm{Sel}_2(A/\mathbb{Q})/A[2] being trivial, as predicted by the BSD conjecture. We also show that, among the residue classes 33, resp. 7mod247\mod 24, the subset of nn such that both of E(n)E^{(n)} and E(n)E^{(-n)} have analytic Sha odd is of limit density 0.2880.288\cdots and 0.1440.144\cdots, respectively, in particular, they are non-tiling numbers. This exhibits two new phenomena on tiling number elliptic curves: firstly, the limit density is different from the general phenomenon on elliptic curves predicted by Bhargava-Kane-Lenstra-Poonen-Rains; secondly, the joint distribution has different behavior among different residue classes.

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@article{arxiv.2405.11132,
  title  = {Quadratic twists of tiling number elliptic curves},
  author = {Keqin Feng and Qiuyue Liu and Jinzhao Pan and Ye Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11132},
  year   = {2024}
}

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