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Tamagawa products of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$

Number Theory 2021-08-18 v3

Abstract

We explicitly construct the Dirichlet series LTam(s):=m=1PTam(m)ms,L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(s):=\sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\frac{P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(m)}{m^s}, where PTam(m)P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(m) is the proportion of elliptic curves E/QE/\mathbb{Q} in short Weierstrass form with Tamagawa product m.m. Although there are no E/QE/\mathbb{Q} with everywhere good reduction, we prove that the proportion with trivial Tamagawa product is PTam(1)=0.5053.P_{\mathrm{Tam}}(1)=0.5053\dots. As a corollary, we find that LTam(1)=1.8193L_{\mathrm{Tam}}(-1)=1.8193\dots is the average Tamagawa product for elliptic curves over Q.\mathbb{Q}. We give an application of these results to canonical and Weil heights.

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@article{arxiv.2105.03513,
  title  = {Tamagawa products of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$},
  author = {Michael Griffin and Ken Ono and Wei-Lun Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03513},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This version corrects a typographical error in a Remark on page 3