Average ranks of elliptic curves: Tension between data and conjecture

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01138-XzbMath1190.11032WikidataQ123230351 ScholiaQ123230351MaRDI QIDQ3443147

Barry Mazur, Baur Bektemirov, Mark Watkins, William A. Stein

Publication date: 31 May 2007

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

average rankBrumer-McGuinness databaseConjectures about twist familiesConjectures when counting all elliptic curvesCurves ordered by conductorPrime conductor curvesRandom matrix statisticsRank conjectures for all curvesRational points on elliptic curvesStein-Watkins database

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02) Algebraic number theory computations (11Y40) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Analytic computations (11Y35)

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