Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture for Analytic Rank One

Abstract: Let

E

be an optimal elliptic curve over

Q

of conductor

N

having analytic rank one, i.e., such that the

L

-function

L_{E} (s)

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

vanishes to order one at

s = 1

. Suppose there is another optimal elliptic curve over

Q

of the same conductor

N

whose Mordell-Weil rank is greater than one and whose associated newform is congruent to the newform associated to

E

modulo an integer

r

. The theory of visibility then shows that under certain additional hypotheses,

r

divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of

E

over

K

. We show that under somewhat similar hypotheses,

r

divides the order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of

E

over

K

. We show that under somewhat similar hypotheses,

r

also divides the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer {em conjectural} order of the Shafarevich-Tate group of

E

over

K

, which provides new theoretical evidence for the second part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in the analytic rank one case.

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