Character sums for elliptic curve densities

arXiv1703.04154MaRDI QIDQ6284238FDOQ6284238

Authors: Julio Brau 

Publication date: 12 March 2017

Abstract: If $E$ is an elliptic curve over $mathbbQ$, then it follows from work of Serre and Hooley that, under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, the density of primes $p$ such that the group of $mathbb{F}_p$-rational points of the reduced curve $ildeE(mathbb{F}_p)$ is cyclic can be written as an infinite product $proddelt{a}_{e}ll$ of local factors $delt{a}_{e}ll$ reflecting the degree of the $ell$-torsion fields, multiplied by a factor that corrects for the entanglements between the various torsion fields. We show that this correction factor can be interpreted as a character sum, and the resulting description allows us to easily determine non-vanishing criteria for it. We apply this method in a variety of other settings. Among these, we consider the aforementioned problem with the additional condition that the primes $p$ lie in a given arithmetic progression. We also study the conjectural constants appearing in Koblitz's conjecture, a conjecture which relates to the density of primes $p$ for which the cardinality of the group of $mathbb{F}_p$-points of $E$ is prime.

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