Experimental data for Goldfeld's conjecture over function fields

DOI10.1080/10586458.2012.671638MaRDI QIDQ4908501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Salman Hameed Baig, Chris Hall

Publication date 6 March 2013

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3099

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvesexperimental datafunction fieldsGoldfeld's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) (L)-functions of varieties over global fields; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (11G40) Number-theoretic algorithms; complexity (11Y16)

Abstract: This paper presents empirical evidence supporting Goldfeld's conjecture on the average analytic rank of a family of quadratic twists of a fixed elliptic curve in the function field setting. In particular, we consider representatives of the four classes of non-isogenous elliptic curves over F_q(t) with (q,6)=1 possessing two places of multiplicative reduction and one place of additive reduction. The case of q=5 provides the largest data set as well as the most convincing evidence that the average analytic rank converges to 1/2, which we also show is a lower bound following an argument of Kowalski. The data was generated via explicit computation of the L-function of these elliptic curves, and we present the key results necessary to implement an algorithm to efficiently compute the L-function of non-isotrivial elliptic curves over F_q(t) by realizing such a curve as a quadratic twist of a pullback of a `versal' elliptic curve. We also provide a reference for our open-source library ELLFF, which provides all the necessary functionality to compute such L-functions, and additional data on analytic rank distributions as they pertain to the density conjecture.

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Uses Software

• NTL
• SageMath

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