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Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank one

Number Theory 2008-10-15 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let EE be an optimal elliptic curve over \Q\Q of conductor NN having analytic rank one, i.e., such that the LL-function LE(s)L_E(s) of EE vanishes to order one at s=1s=1. Let KK be a quadratic imaginary field in which all the primes dividing NN split and such that the LL-function of EE over KK vanishes to order one at s=1s=1. Suppose there is another optimal elliptic curve over \Q\Q of the same conductor NN whose Mordell-Weil rank is greater than one and whose associated newform is congruent to the newform associated to EE modulo an integer rr. The theory of visibility then shows that under certain additional hypotheses, rr divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of EE over KK. We show that under somewhat similar hypotheses, rr divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of EE over KK. We show that under somewhat similar hypotheses, rr also divides the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer {\em conjectural} order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of EE over KK, which provides new theoretical evidence for the second part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in the analytic rank one case.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2487,
  title  = {Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank one},
  author = {Amod Agashe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2487},
  year   = {2008}
}