A visible factor of the Heegner index
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A visible factor of the Heegner index
zbMATH Open document ID: 1231.11060
author: Amod Agashe
published in: Mathematical Research Letters
publication date: 2011-08-09T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5177
review text: Let \(E/\mathbb{Q}\) be an elliptic curve and assume that its analytic rank over \(\mathbb{Q}\) -- namely, the order of vanishing at \(s=1\) of the \(L\)-series \(L(E/\mathbb{Q},s)\) -- is \(1\); fix an imaginary quadratic field \(K\) (subject to certain conditions on the splitting of primes dividing the conductor of the curve). By a combination of results of [\textit{V. A. Kolyvagin}, Euler systems. The Grothendieck Festschrift. Vol.~II, Prog. Math. 87, 435--483 (1990; Zbl 0742.14017)] and \textit{B. H. Gross} and \textit{D. B. Zagier} [Invent. Math. 84, 225--320 (1986; Zbl 0608.14019)] the (second part of the) Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for \(E/\mathbb{Q}\) takes the form \textbf{Conjecture} Let \(c_E\) be the Manin constant of \(E\) and, for every prime \(p\), let \(c_p(E)\) be the Tamagawa number of \(E\) at \(p\). Then \[ | E(K)/\pi(\mathbb{T}P)| \overset{?}{=}c_E\cdot \prod_{p\mid N}c_P(E)\sqrt{| \text Ш(E/K)|} \] where \(\pi:J_0(N)\to E\) is modular parametrization (known to exist thanks to [\textit{C. Breuil} et al., J. Am. Math. Soc. 14, No. 4, 843--939 (2001; Zbl 0982.11033)] and \(P\in J_0(N)(K)\) is a suitable Heegner point depending on \(E,N,K\); here \(\mathbb{T}\) denotes the Hecke algebra acting on \(J_0(N)\). The aim of the paper under review is to study a divisibility in the above conjectured equality, namely ``left-hand side divides right-hand side'' as an application of the theory of ``visibility'' introduced by \textit{J. E. Cremona} and \textit{B. Mazur} in [Exp. Math. 9, No. 1, 13--28 (2000; Zbl 0972.11049)]. The work stems from the main idea of \textit{A. Agashe} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 644, 159--187 (2010; Zbl 1221.11147)], where the author shows that if a modular form giving rise to an abelian variety with analytic rank \(0\) is congruent to another modular form whose attached abelian variety has positive Mordell-Weil rank, then the theory of visibility can be used to produce non-trivial elements in the Tate-Shafarevich group of th…
reviewed by: Filippo Nuccio
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11G05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11G40
zbMATH DE Number: 5937430
zbMATH Keywords: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
zbMATH Keywords: theory of visibility
zbMATH Keywords: Tate-Shafarevich group
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 0810.5177
OpenAlex ID: W2132309715
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N6.A6
description: scientific article