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arxiv: 1609.06687 · v3 · pith:XVCIUMVKnew · submitted 2016-09-21 · 🧮 math.NT

Heegner points at Eisenstein primes and twists of elliptic curves

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keywords curvesconjectureellipticprovetwistscriterioneisensteinheegner
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Given an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$, a celebrated conjecture of Goldfeld asserts that a positive proportion of its quadratic twists should have analytic rank 0 (resp. 1). We show this conjecture holds whenever $E$ has a rational 3-isogeny. We also prove the analogous result for the sextic twists of $j$-invariant 0 curves (Mordell curves). To prove these results, we establish a general criterion for the non-triviality of the $p$-adic logarithm of Heegner points at an Eisenstein prime $p$, in terms of the relative $p$-class numbers of certain number fields and then apply this criterion to the special case $p=3$. As a by-product, we also prove the 3-part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for many elliptic curves of $j$-invariant 0.

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