Watkins' conjecture for elliptic curves over function fields

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Authors Jerson Caro

Publication date 21 March 2022

Abstract: In 2002 Watkins conjectured that given an elliptic curve defined over $mathbbQ$, its Mordell-Weil rank is at most the $2$-adic valuation of its modular degree. We consider the analogous problem over function fields of positive characteristic, and we prove it in several cases. More precisely, every modular semi-stable elliptic curve over $mathbb{F}_q(T)$ after extending constant scalars, and every quadratic twist of a modular elliptic curve over $mathbb{F}_q(T)$ by a polynomial with sufficiently many prime factors satisfy the analogue of Watkins' conjecture. Furthermore, for a well-known family of elliptic curves with unbounded rank due to Ulmer, we prove the analogue of Watkins' conjecture.

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