Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2015.181.1.3zbMATH Open1307.11071arXiv1006.1002OpenAlexW2963533204WikidataQ56686836 ScholiaQ56686836MaRDI QIDQ482910FDOQ482910

Authors: Manjul Bhargava, Arul Shankar 

Publication date: 6 January 2015

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a theorem giving the asymptotic number of binary quartic forms having bounded invariants; this extends, to the quartic case, the classical results of Gauss and Davenport in the quadratic and cubic cases, respectively. Our techniques are quite general, and may be applied to counting integral orbits in other representations of algebraic groups. We use these counting results to prove that the average rank of elliptic curves over $mathbbQ$, when ordered by their heights, is bounded. In particular, we show that when elliptic curves are ordered by height, the mean size of the 2-Selmer group is 3. This implies that the limsup of the average rank of elliptic curves is at most 1.5.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1002

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zbMATH Keywords

rankinvariantselliptic curveaveragebinary quartic formbounded: Selmer group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Forms of degree higher than two (11E76) Lattice points in specified regions (11P21)

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