Shadow line distributions
Number Theory
2025-05-14 v2
Abstract
Let be an elliptic curve over with Mordell--Weil rank and be an odd prime of good ordinary reduction. For every imaginary quadratic field satisfying the Heegner hypothesis, there is (subject to the Shafarevich--Tate conjecture) a line, i.e., a free -submodule of rank , in given by universal norms coming from the Mordell--Weil groups of subfields of the anticyclotomic -extension of ; we call it the {\it shadow line}. When the twist of by has analytic rank , the shadow line is conjectured to lie in ; we verify this computationally in all our examples. We study the distribution of shadow lines in as varies, framing conjectures based on the computations we have made.
Cite
@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