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Short average distribution of a prime counting function over families of elliptic curves

Number Theory 2016-09-28 v1

Abstract

Let EE be an elliptic curve defined over Q\mathbb{Q} and let NN be a positive integer. Now, ME(N)M_E(N) counts the number of primes pp such that the group Ep(Fp)E_p(\mathbb{F}_p) is of order NN. In an earlier joint work with Balasubramanian, we showed that ME(N)M_E(N) follows Poisson distribution when an average is taken over a family of elliptic curve with parameters AA and BB where A,BN2(logN)1+γA,\, B\ge N^{\frac{\ell}{2}}(\log N)^{1+\gamma} and AB>N32(logN)2+γAB>N^{\frac{3\ell}{2}}(\log N)^{2+\gamma} for a fixed integer \ell and any γ>0\gamma>0. In this paper, we show that for sufficiently large NN, the same result holds even if we take AA and BB in the range exp(Nϵ220)A,B>Nϵ\exp(N^{\frac{\epsilon^2}{20\ell}})\ge A, B>N^\epsilon and AB>N32(logN)6+γAB>N^{\frac{3\ell}{2}}(\log N)^{6+\gamma} for any ϵ>0\epsilon>0.

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@article{arxiv.1609.08549,
  title  = {Short average distribution of a prime counting function over families of elliptic curves},
  author = {Sumit Giri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08549},
  year   = {2016}
}

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