Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank one
Abstract
Let be an optimal elliptic curve over of conductor having analytic rank one, i.e., such that the -function of vanishes to order one at . Let be a quadratic imaginary field in which all the primes dividing split and such that the -function of over vanishes to order one at . Suppose there is another optimal elliptic curve over of the same conductor whose Mordell-Weil rank is greater than one and whose associated newform is congruent to the newform associated to modulo an integer . The theory of visibility then shows that under certain additional hypotheses, divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of over . We show that under somewhat similar hypotheses, divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of over . We show that under somewhat similar hypotheses, also divides the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer {\em conjectural} order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of over , 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}
}