The growth of the rank of abelian varieties upon extensions

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Abstract: We study the growth of the rank of elliptic curves and, more generally, Abelian varieties upon extensions of number fields. First, we show that if L/K is a finite Galois extension of number fields such that Gal(L/K) does not have an index 2 subgroup and A/K is an Abelian variety, then kA(L)kA(K) can never be 1. We obtain more precise results when Gal(L/K) is of odd order, alternating, SL2(Fp) or PSL2(Fp). This implies a restriction on kE(K(E[p]))kE(K(zetap)) when E/K is an elliptic curve whose mod p Galois representation is surjective. Similar results are obtained for the growth of the rank in certain non-Galois extensions. Second, we show that for every nge2 there exists an elliptic curve E over a number field K such that QotimesQResK/QE contains a number field of degree 2n. We ask whether every elliptic curve E/K has infinite rank over KQ(2), where Q(2) is the compositum of all quadratic extensions of Q. We show that if the answer is yes, then for any nge2, there exists an elliptic curve E/K admitting infinitely many quadratic twists whose rank is a positive multiple of 2n.











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