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Supersingular main conjectures, Sylvester's conjecture and Goldfeld's conjecture

Number Theory 2022-10-21 v5

Abstract

We prove a pp-converse theorem for elliptic curves E/QE/\mathbb{Q} with complex multiplication by the ring of integers OK\mathcal{O}_K of an imaginary quadratic field KK in which pp is ramified. Namely, letting rp=corankZpSelp(E/Q)r_p = \mathrm{corank}_{\mathbb{Z}_p}\mathrm{Sel}_{p^{\infty}}(E/\mathbb{Q}), we show that rp1    rankZE(Q)=ords=1L(E/Q,s)=rpr_p \le 1 \implies \mathrm{rank}_{\mathbb{Z}}E(\mathbb{Q}) = \mathrm{ord}_{s = 1}L(E/\mathbb{Q},s) = r_p and #Sha(E/Q)<\#\mathrm{Sha}(E/\mathbb{Q}) < \infty. In particular, this has applications to two classical Diophantine problems. First, it resolves Sylvester's conjecture on rational sums of cubes, showing that for all primes 4,7,8(mod9)\ell \equiv 4,7,8 \pmod{9}, there exists (x,y)Q2(x,y) \in \mathbb{Q}^{\oplus 2} such that x3+y3=x^3 + y^3 = \ell. Second, combined with work of Smith, it resolves the congruent number problem in 100\% of cases and establishes Goldfeld's conjecture on ranks of quadratic twists for the congruent number family. The method for showing the above pp-converse theorem relies on new interplays between Iwasawa theory for imaginary quadratic fields at nonsplit primes and relative pp-adic Hodge theory. In particular, we show that a certain de Rham period qdRq_{\mathrm{dR}} can be used to construct anticyclotomic pp-adic LL-functions for Hecke characters and newforms, interpolating anticyclotomic twists of positive Hodge-Tate weight in the central critical range. Moreover, one can relate the Iwasawa module of elliptic units to these anticyclotomic pp-adic LL-functions via a new "Coleman map", which is, roughly speaking, the qdRq_{\mathrm{dR}}-expansion of the Coleman power series map. Using this, we formulate and prove a new Rubin-type main conjecture for elliptic units, which is eventually related to Heegner points in order to prove the pp-converse theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2002.04767,
  title  = {Supersingular main conjectures, Sylvester's conjecture and Goldfeld's conjecture},
  author = {Daniel Kriz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04767},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Added more discussion and reorganized several sections

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