Second Isogeny Descents and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectural Formula
Number Theory
2015-12-18 v2
Abstract
Let h be a p-isogeny of elliptic curves. We describe how to perform h-descents on the nontrivial elements in the Shafarevich-Tate group which are killed by the dual isogeny h'. This makes computation of p-Selmer groups of elliptic curves admitting a p-isogeny over Q feasible for p = 5,7 in cases where an isogeny descent is insufficient and a full p-descent would be infeasible. As an application we complete the verification of the full Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectural formula for all elliptic curves over Q of rank zero or one and conductor less than 5000.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1105.4018,
title = {Second Isogeny Descents and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectural Formula},
author = {Brendan Creutz and Robert L. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4018},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
version 2: Definition 2.1 has been corrected; other minor edits and corrections