Moments of the error term in the Sato-Tate law for elliptic curves

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DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2018.07.005zbMATH Open1450.11051arXiv1705.09229OpenAlexW2963955574WikidataQ129340061 ScholiaQ129340061MaRDI QIDQ1788089FDOQ1788089

Stephan Baier, Neha Prabhu

Publication date: 8 October 2018

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive new bounds for moments of the error in the Sato-Tate law over families of elliptic curves. Our estimates are stronger than those obtained by W.D. Banks and I.E. Shparlinski (arXiv:math/0609144) and L. Zhao and the fist-named author in (arXiv:math/0608318) for the first and second moments, but this comes at the cost of larger ranges of averaging. As applications, we deduce new almost-all results for the said errors and a conditional Central Limit Theorem on the distribution of these errors. Our method is different from those used in the above-mentioned papers and builds on recent work by the second-named author and K. Sinha (arXiv:1705.04115) who derived a Central Limit Theorem on the distribution of the errors in the Sato-Tate law for families of cusp forms for the full modular group. In addition, identities by Birch and Melzak play a crucial rule in this paper. Birch's identities connect moments of coefficients of Hasse-Weil L-functions for elliptic curves with the Kronecker class number and further with traces of Hecke operators. Melzak's identity is combinatorial in nature.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09229





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