Distribution of the traces of Frobenius on elliptic curves over function fields

Abstract: Let

C

be a smooth projective curve over

m a t h b b F_{q}

with function field

K

,

E / K

a nonconstant elliptic curve and

p h i : m a t h c a l E o C

its minimal regular model. For each

P i n C

such that

E

has good reduction at

P

, i.e., the fiber

m a t h c a l E_{P} = p h i^{- 1} (P)

is smooth, the eigenvalues of the zeta-function of

m a t h c a l E_{P}

over the residue field

k a p p a_{P}

of

P

are of the form

q_{P}^{1 / 2} e^{i h e t a_{P}}, q_{P} e^{- i h e t a_{P}}

, where

q_{P} = q^{d e g (P)}

and

0 l e h e t a_{P} l e p i

. The goal of this note is to determine given an integer

B g e 1

,

the number of

P i n C

where the reduction of

E

is good and such that

d e g (P) l e B

and

.

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