Computing the average root number of an elliptic surface

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2018.07.012MaRDI QIDQ1788091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jake Chinis

Publication date 8 October 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02283

zbMATH Keywords

average root numberrankroot number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: By considering a one-parameter family of elliptic curves defined over $mathbbQ$, 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 (at least conjecturally) that the average root number of an elliptic curve defined over $mathbbQ(T)$ is zero as soon as there is a place of multiplicative reduction over $mathbbQ(T)$ other than $-$deg. Recently, Helfgott's work was extended by Desjardins, where she relaxes some of Helfgott's hypotheses and is able to provide unconditional results on the variation of the root number for many elliptic surfaces. In this paper, we are concerned with elliptic curves defined over $mathbbQ(T)$ with no place of multiplicative reduction over $mathbbQ(T)$, except possibly at $-$deg. More precisely, we will use the work of Helfgott to compute the average root number of an explicit family of elliptic curves defined over $mathbbQ$ and show that this family is "parity-biased" infinitely-often.

Review text

By the result of \textit{H.A. Helfgott}, it is known that the average root number of an elliptic curve over \(\mathbb{Q}[T]\) is zero if there is a place of multiplicative reduction over \(\mathbb{Q}[T]\) other than \(-\mathrm{deg}\) [``On the behaviour of root numbers in families of elliptic curves, Preprint, \url{arXiv:0408141}]. On the other hand, there has been little work dealing with the case where an elliptic curve over \(\mathbb{Q}[T]\) has no place of multiplicative reduction over \(\mathbb{Q}[T]\) other than \(-\mathrm{deg}\). Examples of a family of elliptic curves whose average root number is non-zero is already known but in [\textit{S. Bettin} et al., ``Families of elliptic curves with the non-zero average root number, Preprint], the authors present a systematic approach to describing families of elliptic curves defined over Q whose average root number is not zero. In this paper, the author gives the detailed computation for one of the families listed in that preprint and actually shows that this family has often the non-zero average root number.

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