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Tamagawa Products for Elliptic Curves Over Number Fields

Number Theory 2023-10-24 v2

Abstract

In recent work, Griffin, Ono, and Tsai constructs an LL-series to prove that the proportion of short Weierstrass elliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q} with trivial Tamagawa product is 0.50540.5054\dots and that the average Tamagawa product is 1.81831.8183\dots. Following their work, we generalize their LL-series over arbitrary number fields KK to be LTam(K;s):=m=1PTam(K;m)ms,L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K; s):=\sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\frac{P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K; m)}{m^s}, where PTam(K;m)P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;m) is the proportion of short Weierstrass elliptic curves over KK with Tamagawa product mm. We then construct Markov chains to compute the exact values of PTam(K;m)P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;m) for all number fields KK and positive integers mm. As a corollary, we also compute the average Tamagawa product LTam(K;1)L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;-1). We then use these results to uniformly bound PTam(K;1)P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;1) and LTam(K,1)L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K,-1) in terms of the degree of KK. Finally, we show that there exist sequences of KK for which PTam(K;1)P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;1) tends to 00 and LTam(K;1)L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;-1) to \infty, as well as sequences of KK for which PTam(K;1)P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;1) and LTam(K;1)L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(K;-1) tend to 11.

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@article{arxiv.2108.13625,
  title  = {Tamagawa Products for Elliptic Curves Over Number Fields},
  author = {Yunseo Choi and Sean Li and Apoorva Panidapu and Casia Siegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13625},
  year   = {2023}
}

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40 pages, 9 figures, 17 tables