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Shadow line distributions

Number Theory 2025-05-14 v2

Abstract

Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q} with Mordell--Weil rank 22 and pp be an odd prime of good ordinary reduction. For every imaginary quadratic field KK satisfying the Heegner hypothesis, there is (subject to the Shafarevich--Tate conjecture) a line, i.e., a free Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-submodule of rank 11, in E(K)Zp E(K)\otimes \mathbb{Z}_p given by universal norms coming from the Mordell--Weil groups of subfields of the anticyclotomic Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-extension of KK; we call it the {\it shadow line}. When the twist of EE by KK has analytic rank 11, the shadow line is conjectured to lie in E(Q)ZpE(\mathbb{Q})\otimes\mathbb{Z}_p; we verify this computationally in all our examples. We study the distribution of shadow lines in E(Q)ZpE(\mathbb{Q})\otimes\mathbb{Z}_p as KK varies, framing conjectures based on the computations we have made.

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@article{arxiv.2409.00891,
  title  = {Shadow line distributions},
  author = {Jennifer S. Balakrishnan and Mirela Çiperiani and Barry Mazur and Karl Rubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00891},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Updated following referee's comments. To appear in Math. Comp

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