The local root number of elliptic curves with wild ramification

2002 ◽  
Vol 323 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ichi Kobayashi
2005 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 513-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL DUMMIGAN

Vatsal has proved recently a result which has consequences for the existence of rational points of odd prime order ℓ on optimal elliptic curves over ℚ. When the conductor N is squarefree, ℓ ∤ N and the local root number wp= -1 for at least one prime p | N, we offer a somewhat different proof, starting from an explicit cuspidal divisor on X0(N). We also prove some results linking the vanishing of L(E,1) with the divisibility by ℓ of the modular parametrization degree, fitting well with the Bloch–Kato conjecture for L( Sym2E,2), and with an earlier construction of elements in Shafarevich–Tate groups. Finally (following Faltings and Jordan) we prove an analogue of the result on ℓ-torsion for cuspidal Hecke eigenforms of level one (and higher weight), thereby strengthening some existing evidence for another case of the Bloch–Kato conjecture.


2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-668
Author(s):  
Keunyoung Jeong ◽  
Jigu Kim ◽  
Taekyung Kim

Abstract In this paper, we show that an action on the set of elliptic curves with j = 1728 j=1728 preserves a certain kind of symmetry on the local root number of Hecke characters attached to such elliptic curves. As a consequence, we give results on the distribution of the root numbers and their average of the aforementioned Hecke characters.


1997 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Howe

AbstractFollowing a method outlined by Greenberg, root number computations give a conjectural lower bound for the ranks of certain Mordell–Weil groups of elliptic curves. More specifically, for PQn a PGL2(Z/pnZ)–extension of Q and E an elliptic curve over Q, define the motive E ⊗ ρ, where ρ is any irreducible representation of Gal(PQn /Q). Under some restrictions, the root number in the conjectural functional equation for the L-function of E ⊗ ρ is easily computable, and a ‘–1’ implies, by the Birch and Swinnerton–Dyer conjecture, that ρ is found in E(PQn) ⊗ C. Summing the dimensions of such ρ gives a conjectural lower bound ofp2n–p2n–1–p–1for the rank of E(PQn).


2016 ◽  
Vol 152 (11) ◽  
pp. 2255-2268
Author(s):  
Kęstutis Česnavičius ◽  
Naoki Imai

For an elliptic curve $E$ over a local field $K$ and a separable quadratic extension of $K$, motivated by connections to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Kramer and Tunnell have conjectured a formula for computing the local root number of the base change of $E$ to the quadratic extension in terms of a certain norm index. The formula is known in all cases except some where $K$ is of characteristic $2$, and we complete its proof by reducing the positive characteristic case to characteristic $0$. For this reduction, we exploit the principle that local fields of characteristic $p$ can be approximated by finite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_{p}$: we find an elliptic curve $E^{\prime }$ defined over a $p$-adic field such that all the terms in the Kramer–Tunnell formula for $E^{\prime }$ are equal to those for $E$.


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