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Rank stability of elliptic curves in certain non-abelian extensions

Number Theory 2025-02-14 v2

Abstract

Let E/QE_{/\mathbb{Q}} be an elliptic curve with rank E(Q)=0E(\mathbb{Q})=0. Fix an odd prime pp, a positive integer nn and a finite abelian extension K/QK/\mathbb{Q} with rank E(K)=0E(K) = 0. In this paper, we show that there exist infinitely many extensions L/KL/K such that L/QL/\mathbb{Q} is Galois with Gal(L/Q)Gal(K/Q)Z/pnZ\operatorname{Gal}(L/\mathbb{Q}) \simeq \operatorname{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q}) \ltimes \mathbb{Z}/p^n\mathbb{Z}, and rank E(L)=0E(L)=0. This is an extension of earlier results on rank stability of elliptic curves in cyclic extensions of prime power order to a non-abelian setting. We also obtain an asymptotic lower bound for the number of such extensions, ordered by their absolute discriminant.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13582,
  title  = {Rank stability of elliptic curves in certain non-abelian extensions},
  author = {Siddhi Pathak and Anwesh Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13582},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Version 2: 24 pages, accepted for publication in Mathematische Nachrichten