Towards an `average' version of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2010.04.002zbMATH Open1261.11047arXiv0911.2871OpenAlexW1974541263WikidataQ123285352 ScholiaQ123285352MaRDI QIDQ708271FDOQ708271

Steven J. Miller, John Goes

Publication date: 11 October 2010

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture states that the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic curve E equals the order of vanishing at the central point of the associated L-function L(s,E). Previous investigations have focused on bounding how far we must go above the central point to be assured of finding a zero, bounding the rank of a fixed curve or on bounding the average rank in a family. Mestre showed the first zero occurs by O(1/loglog(N_E)), where N_E is the conductor of E, though we expect the correct scale to study the zeros near the central point is the significantly smaller 1/log(N_E). We significantly improve on Mestre's result by averaging over a one-parameter family of elliptic curves, obtaining non-trivial upper and lower bounds for the average number of normalized zeros in intervals on the order of 1/log(N_E) (which is the expected scale). Our results may be interpreted as providing further evidence in support of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, as well as the Katz-Sarnak density conjecture from random matrix theory (as the number of zeros predicted by random matrix theory lies between our upper and lower bounds). These methods may be applied to additional families of L-functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2871

zbMATH Keywords

random matrix theoryelliptic curvesBirch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectureone-level densityaverage rankKatz-Sarnak conjectures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) (L)-functions of varieties over global fields; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (11G40) Relations with random matrices (11M50)

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