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Quadratic twists of elliptic curves and class numbers

Authors :
Michael Griffin
Ken Ono
Wei-Lun Tsai
Source :
Journal of Number Theory. 227:1-29
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2021.

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)

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