English

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

Number Theory 2009-10-22 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let EE be an optimal elliptic curve over \Q\Q of conductor NN having analytic rank zero, i.e., such that the LL-function LE(s)L_E(s) of EE does not vanish 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 zero 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 product of the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of EE and the orders of the arithmetic component groups of EE. We extract an explicit integer factor from the the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectural formula for the product mentioned above, and under some hypotheses similar to the ones made in the situation above, we show that rr divides this integer factor. This provides theoretical evidence for the second part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in the analytic rank zero case.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3823,
  title  = {Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank zero},
  author = {Amod Agashe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3823},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

The first version has a mistake (the result in the appendix may be incorrect). Version 2 and later correct this mistake