A Markov model for Selmer ranks in families of twists

DOI10.1112/S0010437X13007896zbMATH Open1316.11045OpenAlexW3104885644MaRDI QIDQ2874604FDOQ2874604

Authors Zev Klagsbrun, Barry Mazur, Karl Rubin 

Publication date 8 August 2014

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6507

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvesSelmer groupsarithmetic statisticsquadratic twistsMarkov precesses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) (L)-functions of varieties over global fields; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (11G40)

Abstract: We study the distribution of 2-Selmer ranks in the family of quadratic twists of an elliptic curve E over an arbitrary number field K. Under the assumption that Gal(K(E[2])/K) = S_3 we show that the density (counted in a non-standard way) of twists with Selmer rank r exists for all positive integers r, and is given via an equilibrium distribution, depending only on a single parameter (the `disparity'), of a certain Markov process that is itself independent of E and K. More generally, our results also apply to p-Selmer ranks of twists of 2-dimensional self-dual F_p-representations of the absolute Galois group of K by characters of order p.

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