The distribution of the Tamagawa ratio in the family of elliptic curves with a two-torsion point

DOI10.1186/S40687-014-0015-4zbMATH Open1349.11094arXiv1406.6745OpenAlexW2163575161WikidataQ59401283 ScholiaQ59401283MaRDI QIDQ347462FDOQ347462

Authors: Zev Klagsbrun, Robert J. Lemke Oliver 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

Published in: Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In recent work, Bhargava and Shankar have shown that the average size of the $2$-Selmer group of an elliptic curve over $mathbbQ$ is exactly $3$, and Bhargava and Ho have shown that the average size of the $2$-Selmer group in the family of elliptic curves with a marked point is exactly $6$. In contrast to these results, we show that the average size of the $2$-Selmer group in the family of elliptic curves with a two-torsion point is unbounded. In particular, the existence of a two-torsion point implies the existence of rational isogeny. A fundamental quantity attached to a pair of isogenous curves is the Tamagawa ratio, which measures the relative sizes of the Selmer groups associated to the isogeny and its dual. Building on previous work in which we considered the Tamagawa ratio in quadratic twist families, we show that, in the family of all elliptic curves with a two-torsion point, the Tamagawa ratio is essentially governed by a normal distribution with mean zero and growing variance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6745

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25) Elliptic curves (14H52)

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