Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields (Q1826276)

From MaRDI portal
Revision as of 17:34, 6 June 2024 by ReferenceBot (talk | contribs) (‎Changed an Item)
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields
scientific article

    Statements

    Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    5 August 2004
    0 references
    Let \(E\) be an elliptic curve defined over \(\mathbb Q\), let \(K\) be a complex quadratic number field, and let \(K_\infty\) be a \(\mathbb Z_p\)-extension of \(K\). Let \(\Sigma\) be a set of primes of \(K\) containing the primes above \(p\) as well as the primes of bad reduction of \(E\), and let \(K_\Sigma\) denote the maximal algebraic extension of \(K\) that is unramified outside \(\Sigma\). For a subextension \(L/K\) of \(K_\Sigma/K\) we have the Selmer groups Sel\(_{p^n}(E/L)\); these form inverse and direct systems in a natural way, with limits \(S_p(E/L)\) and Sel\(_{p^\infty}(E/L)\), respectively. Now consider these Selmer groups over the \(n\)-th layer \(K_n\) of \(K_\infty\), and assume that \(E\) has complex multiplication by \(K\). Then it is conjectured that there is an integer \(r \in \{0, 1, 2\}\) depending on \(E\) and \(K_\infty/K\) such that the \(\mathbb Z_p\)-rank of \(S_p(E/K_n)\) (or, equivalently, the \(\mathbb Z_p\)-corank of Sel\(_{p^\infty}(E/L)\) is equal to \(r p^n + O(1)\)). The author provides evidence for this conjecture by proving it e.g. for the anticyclotomic \(\mathbb Z_p\)-extension of \(K\) under suitable assumptions guaranteeing the existence of Heegner points (in particular, the \(L\)-series \(L(E/K,s)\) should vanish to odd order at \(s = 1\)). In this case it turns out that we have \(r = 1\). The article also contains information on the structure of the cohomology groups\break \(H^i(K_\Sigma/K_\infty,E[p^\infty])\) for \(i = 1, 2\) viewed as discrete modules over the Iwasawa algebra of \(K_\infty/K\).
    0 references
    elliptic curve
    0 references
    Selmer group
    0 references
    anticyclotomic extension
    0 references
    Iwasawa theory
    0 references
    complex multiplication
    0 references
    Heegner points
    0 references

    Identifiers