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Quadratic twists of elliptic curves and class numbers
- Source :
- Journal of Number Theory. 227:1-29
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- For positive rank $r$ elliptic curves $E(\mathbb{Q})$, we employ ideal class pairings $$ E(\mathbb{Q})\times E_{-D}(\mathbb{Q}) \rightarrow \mathrm{CL}(-D), $$ for quadratic twists $E_{-D}(\mathbb{Q})$ with a suitable ``small $y$-height'' rational point, to obtain effective class number lower bounds. For the curves $E^{(a)}: \ y^2=x^3-a,$ with rank $r(a),$ this gives $$ h(-D) \geq \frac{1}{10}\cdot \frac{|E_{\mathrm{tor}}(\mathbb{Q})|}{\sqrt{R_{\mathbb{Q}}(E)}}\cdot \frac{\Gamma\left (\frac{r(a)}{2}+1\right)}{(4\pi)^{\frac{r(a)}{2}}} \cdot \frac{\log(D)^{\frac{r(a)}{2}}}{\log \log D}, $$ representing an improvement to the classical lower bound of Goldfeld, Gross and Zagier when $r(a)\geq 3$. We prove that the number of twists $E_{-D}^{(a)}(\mathbb{Q})$ with such a point (resp. with such a point and rank $\geq 2$ under the Parity Conjecture) is $\gg_{a,\varepsilon} X^{\frac{1}{2}-\varepsilon}.$ We give infinitely many cases where $r(a)\geq 6$. These results can be viewed as an analogue of the classical estimate of Gouv\^ea and Mazur for the number of rank $\geq 2$ quadratic twists, where in addition we obtain ``log-power'' improvements to the Goldfeld-Gross-Zagier class number lower bound.<br />Comment: We correct minor typographical errors, including the formula in the abstract and equation (1.3)
- Subjects :
- Algebra and Number Theory
Conjecture
Mathematics - Number Theory
010102 general mathematics
010103 numerical & computational mathematics
01 natural sciences
Upper and lower bounds
Combinatorics
Elliptic curve
Quadratic equation
Rational point
FOS: Mathematics
Rank (graph theory)
Number Theory (math.NT)
Ideal (ring theory)
0101 mathematics
Parity (mathematics)
11G05, 11R37
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0022314X
- Volume :
- 227
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Number Theory
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b55c78497762042616dcd545f6345916
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2021.03.002