Estimating the growth in Mordell-Weil ranks and Shafarevich-Tate groups over Lie extensions (Q2398290)

Let \(E\) be an elliptic curve defined over \(\mathbb Q\) and let \(p>3\) be a prime, where \(E\) has good ordinary reduction. Let \(k\) be a number field. Under certain hypotheses, the authors study the growth of the Mordell-Weil ranks and Shafarevich-Tate groups of \(E\) over towers of extensions \(K_n/k\) in a \(p\)-adic Lie extension \(K_{\infty}\) of \(k\). The first part of the paper is devoted to a generalization of a result on the Mordell-Weil ranks due to \textit{H. Darmon} and \textit{Y. Tian} [Can. J. Math. 62, No. 5, 1060--1081 (2010; Zbl 1287.11081)]. More precisely, they give upper and lower bounds for \(p\)-adic Lie extensions of number fields whose Galois group is \(\mathbb Z_p^2 \rtimes \mathbb Z_p\), and for \((d-1)\)-fold false Tate extensions \(K_{\infty} = \mathbb Q(\mu_{p^{\infty}}, \ell_1^{1 / p^{\infty}}, \dots, \ell_{d-1}^{1 / p^{\infty}})\). In certain special cases, even the exact rank is determined. In the second part, the authors examine the growth of the \(p\)-primary parts of Shafarevich-Tate groups (under the assumption that they are finite). They obtain an asymptotic upper bound, using the lower bound for Mordell-Weil ranks of the first part and a refinement of \textit{R. Greenberg}'s control theorem [Compos. Math. 136, No. 3, 255--297 (2003; Zbl 1158.11319)]. These formulae are reminiscent to corresponding formulae for class groups in \(\mathbb Z_p^d\)-extensions due to \textit{A. A. Cuoco} and \textit{P. Monsky} [Math. Ann. 255, 235--258 (1981; Zbl 0437.12003)] and also in non-commutative extensions due to \textit{G. Perbet} [Algebra Number Theory 5, No. 6, 819--848 (2011; Zbl 1275.11142)].