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In recent years, the question of whether the ranks of elliptic curves defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ are unbounded has garnered much attention. One can create refined versions of this question by restricting one's attention to elliptic curves…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Harris B. Daniels , Hannah Goodwillie

By considering a one-parameter family of elliptic curves defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, we might ask ourselves if there is any bias in the distribution (or parity) of the root numbers at each specialization. From the work of Helfgott, we know…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Jake Chinis

An elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ is said to be good if $N_{E}^{6}<\max\!\left\{ \left\vert c_{4}^{3}\right\vert ,c_{6}^{2}\right\} $ where $N_{E}$ is the conductor of $E$ and $c_{4}$ and $c_{6}$ are the invariants associated to a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Alexander J. Barrios

A rational perfect cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped whose edges and face diagonals are given by rational numbers and whose space diagonal is equal to unity. Recently it was shown that the Diophantine equations describing such a cuboid…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-05 John Ramsden , Ruslan Sharipov

In this note we study numbers which occur as conductors of elliptic curves over Q. We show, by constructing families of elliptic curves with quadratic discriminant and invoking a theorem of Iwaniec, that this set contains infinitely many…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Sean Howe , Kirti Joshi

Let $m$ be a positive integer and let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ with the property that $m\mid#E(\mathbb{F}_p)$ for a density $1$ set of primes $p$. Building upon work of Katz and Harron-Snowden, we study the probability…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-20 John Cullinan , Meagan Kenney , John Voight

We give explicit formulas for the number of points on reductions of elliptic curves with complex multiplication by any imaginary quadratic field. We also find models for CM $\mathbf{Q}$-curves in certain cases. This generalizes earlier…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-06 K. Rubin , A. Silverberg

Let $K$ be a fixed number field, assumed to be Galois over $\mathbb Q$. Let $r$ and $f$ be fixed integers with $f$ positive. Given an elliptic curve $E$, defined over $K$, we consider the problem of counting the number of degree $f$ prime…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Kevin James , Ethan Smith

We explain how recent work on 3-descent and 4-descent for elliptic curves over Q can be combined to search for generators of the Mordell-Weil group of large height. As an application we show that every elliptic curve of prime conductor in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-11-26 Tom Fisher

In this article, we prove that the average rank of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$, when ordered by height, is less than $1$ (in fact, less than $.885$). As a consequence of our methods, we also prove that at least four fifths of all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Manjul Bhargava , Arul Shankar

The curvature estimates of quotient curvature equation do not always exist even for convex setting \cite{GRW}. Thus it is natural question to find other type of elliptic equations possessing curvature estimates. In this paper, we discuss…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Chunhe Li , Changyu Ren , Zhizhang Wang

We study the parity of 2-Selmer ranks in the family of quadratic twists of an arbitrary elliptic curve E over an arbitrary number field K. We prove that the fraction of twists (of a given elliptic curve over a fixed number field) having…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Zev Klagsbrun , Barry Mazur , Karl Rubin

In this paper, we obtain an unconditional density theorem concerning the low-lying zeros of Hasse-Weil L-functions for a family of elliptic curves. From this together with the Riemann hypothesis for these L-functions, we infer the majorant…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Stephan Baier , Liangyi Zhao

In this paper we study the problem of how to determine all elliptic curves defined over an arbitrary number field $K$ with good reduction outside a given finite set of primes $S$ of $K$ by solving $S$-unit equations. We give examples of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Angelos Koutsianas

A conditional bound is given for the average analytic rank of elliptic curves over an arbitrary number field. In particular, under the assumptions that all elliptic curves over a number field $K$ are modular and have $L$-functions which…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Tristan Phillips

We count by height the number of elliptic curves over the rationals that possess an isogeny of degree three.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Maggie Pizzo , Carl Pomerance , John Voight

We present an heuristic argument for the prediction of expected Mordell-Weil rank of elliptic curves over number fields, using Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer's original conjecture and Sato-Tate conjectures. We do calculations in some cases and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Dinesh S Thakur

We establish asymptotic lower bounds for the number of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ with prescribed entanglement of division fields, ordered by naive height. Such elliptic curves are obtained as $1$-parameter families arising from…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Zachary Couvillon , Anwesh Ray

We give upper bounds for the number of rational elliptic surfaces in some families having positive rank, obtaining in particular that these form a subset of density zero. This confirms Cowan's conjecture (arXiv:2009.08622v2) in the case…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Francesco Battistoni , Sandro Bettin , Christophe Delaunay

For any family of elliptic curves over the rational numbers with fixed $j$-invariant, we prove that the existence of a long sequence of rational points whose $x$-coordinates form a non-trivial arithmetic progression implies that the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Natalia Garcia-Fritz , Hector Pasten