Ranks of twists of elliptic curves and Hilbert's tenth problem

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DOI10.1007/S00222-010-0252-0zbMATH Open1227.11075arXiv0904.3709OpenAlexW3105629360MaRDI QIDQ993380FDOQ993380

Barry Mazur, Karl Rubin

Publication date: 10 September 2010

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the 2-Selmer rank in families of quadratic twists of elliptic curves over arbitrary number fields. We give sufficient conditions on an elliptic curve so that it has twists of arbitrary 2-Selmer rank, and we give lower bounds for the number of twists (with bounded conductor) that have a given 2-Selmer rank. As a consequence, under appropriate hypotheses we can find many twists with trivial Mordell-Weil group, and (assuming the Shafarevich-Tate conjecture) many others with infinite cyclic Mordell-Weil group. Using work of Poonen and Shlapentokh, it follows from our results that if the Shafarevich-Tate conjecture holds, then Hilbert's Tenth Problem has a negative answer over the ring of integers of every number field.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3709




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