Elliptic curves with large Tate-Shafarevich groups over F_q(t)

Abstract: Let

m a t h b b F_{q}

be a finite field of odd characteristic

p

. We exhibit elliptic curves over the rational function field

K = m a t h b b F_{q} (t)

whose Tate-Shafarevich groups are large. More precisely, we consider certain infinite sequences of explicit elliptic curves

E

, for which we prove that their Tate-Shafarevich group

m a t h r m I I I (E)

is finite and satisfies

| m a t h r m I I I (E) | = H (E)^{1 + o (1)}

as

H (E) o i n f t y

, where

H (E)

denotes the exponential differential height of

E

. The elliptic curves in these sequences are pairwise neither isogenous nor geometrically isomorphic. We further show that the

p

-primary part of their Tate-Shafarevich group is trivial. The proof involves explicitly computing the

L

-functions of these elliptic curves, proving the BSD conjecture for them, and obtaining estimates on the size of the central value of their

L

-function.

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