A visible factor of the Heegner index

DOI10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N6.A6zbMATH Open1231.11060arXiv0810.5177OpenAlexW2132309715MaRDI QIDQ2275756FDOQ2275756

Amod Agashe

Publication date: 9 August 2011

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $E$ be an optimal elliptic curve of conductor $N$, such that the $L$-function of $E$ vanishes to order one at $s=1$. Let $K$ be a quadratic imaginary field in which all the primes dividing $N$ split and such that the $L$-function of $E$ over $K$ also vanishes to order one at $s=1$. In view of the Gross-Zagier theorem, the second part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture says that the index in $E(K)$ of the subgroup generated by the Heegner point is equal to the product of the Manin constant of $E$, the Tamagawa numbers of $E$, and the square root of the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of $E$ (over $K$). We extract an integer factor from the index mentioned above and relate this factor to certain congruences of the newform associated to $E$ with eigenforms of analytic rank bigger than one. We use the theory of visibility to show that, under certain hypotheses (which includes the first part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture on rank), if an odd prime $q$ divides this factor, then $q$ divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group or the order of an arithmetic component group of $E$, as predicted by the second part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5177

zbMATH Keywords

Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectureTate-Shafarevich grouptheory of visibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited In (2)

• Visible evidence for the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for modular abelian varieties of analytic rank zero
• Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank zero

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