Jared Weinstein (UCLA) and William Stein (Univ. of Washington): Heegner Points and Kolyvagin's Euler system

Description

The celebrated Gross-Zagier theorem implies that if E/Q is an elliptic curve of analytic rank one, then E(Q) contains a subgroup of finite index generated by a single Heegner point PK which is necessarily non-torsion. (Here K is an appropriate imaginary quadratic field.) But if E has higher analytic rank, meaning that presumably E has lots of nontorsion rational points, then PK is torsion. Nonetheless, there is a remarkable theory of Kolyvagin systems which plays the role of PK. This is a family of cohomology classes τn in H1(K,E[p]), indexed by suitable square-free integers n, which satisfy a highly restrictive compatibility relationship. If just one member of the family is nonzero, then there are strong consequences; for instance, the entire p-Selmer group (which contains E(K)/pE(K) as a subgroup) will be generated by the Kolyvagin classes τn for n a product of r−1 distinct primes, where r is the rank of the p-Selmer group for E/K.

Our group will be concerned with the computation of the classes τn. By the end of the workshop, I would like to see a table of mod 3 classes τℓ1ℓ2 for the elliptic curve 5077A of rank 3, for different values of the quadratic field K and for various pairs of primes ℓ1, ℓ2.

References

B. H. Gross, Kolyvagin’s work on modular elliptic curves, L-functions and arithmetic (Durham, 1989), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 153, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 235–256.

B. Howard, The Heegner point Kolyvagin system, Compos. Math. 140 (2004), no. 6, 1439–1472.

V. A. Kolyvagin, Euler systems, The Grothendieck Festschrift, Vol. II, Progr. Math., vol. 87, Birkhauser Boston, Boston, MA, 1990, pp. 435–483.

W. Stein, Heegner Points on Rank Two Elliptic Curves. http://wstein.org/papers/kolyconj2/.

W. Stein, Toward a generalization of Gross-Zagier. http://wstein.org/papers/stein-ggz/

Projects

A. Compute Kolyvagin classes mod p

• People: Jen Balakrishnan, Justin Walker, Robert Miller, Rebecca Bellovin, Daniel Disegni, Ian Whitehead, Donggeon Yhee, Khoa, Robert Bradshaw, Dario

B. Using A to compute Kolyvagin classes en masse (theoretical)

• People = A + Chen