On the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for an elliptic curve of rank 3
On the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for an elliptic curve of rank 3
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关于 Birch 和 Swinnerton-Dyer 对 3 阶椭圆曲线的猜想
DOI:
10.1090/s0025-5718-1985-0777279-x
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发表时间:
1985
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2
通讯作者:
D. Zagier
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J. Buhler;B. Gross;D. Zagier
The elliptic curve y2 = 4x3 28x + 25 has rank 3 over Q. Assuming the WeilTaniyama conjecture for this curve, we show that its L-series L(s) has a triple zero at s = 1 and compute lim, _I L(s)/(s 1)3 to 28 decimal places; its value agrees with the product of the regulator and real period, in accordance with the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture if III is trivial. The object of this note is to verify the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer numerically (to high accuracy) for the elliptic curve (1) E :y2 = 4x3 28x + 25. The conductor of E is 5077, which is apparently the smallest conductor for a curve of rank 3 over Q. Since previous accurate numerical verifications were done for modular curves of rank 0 or 1, and these can now be confirmed theoretically [2], [4], it seemed desirable to test the conjecture for a curve of larger rank. We assume some familiarity with the theory of elliptic curves; good references are [3] and [5]. 1. The Canonical Height Function. One of the main ingredients in the BirchSwinnerton-Dyer formula is the regulator, i.e., the determinant of the matrix expressing the canonical height pairing on E(Q) ? R with respect to a Z-basis of E(Q)/E(Q) torsIn this section we describe how to calculate the canonical height of a point P e E(Q). We first recall the definition. The global minimal model for E has the form (2) y2 +y=x3-7x+6, obtained by replacing y by 2y + 1 in (1) and dividing by 4; this equation has discriminant A\ = 5077. If P E E(Q), then the naive height of P is defined as (3) h(P) = logmax(lal, b), x(P) = a/b, b > 0, (a, b) = 1 (here it does not matter whether we use model (1) or (2) for E, as the x-coordinates are the same); the canonical height is the unique quadratic form h on E(Q) ? R such that h (P) h (P) is bounded, and the canonical height pairing is the associated bilinear form (P, P') = ((h(P + P') h(P) h(P')). The definition of h immediately implies the formula h (P) = limn n 2h (nP), but this is not convenient for calculations. A formula which is usable is (4) h (P) = logb + F(x(P)), Received March 20, 1984; revised June 11, 1984. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 14K07, 14G10. ?01985 American Mathematical Society 0025-5718/85 $1.00 + $.25 per page 473 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.215 on Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:32:02 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 474 JOE. P. BUHLER, BENEDICT H. GROSS AND DON B. ZAGIER where b denotes the denominator of x(P) as in (3) and F(x) is the real-valued function defined by 00 F(x) = log|x| + E 4-n-1logz, (5) n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l=0 (5) ~+14 50 49 x4 + 14X2 50x + 49 x,1 Xn Xn 4x3 28xn+ 25 Near x = 0 the first two terms in (5) become infinite, but we can combine them to obtain 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~00 (6) F(x)= log(x4 + 14X2-50x + 49) + E 4-n-1logz tt= 1 a formula which now makes sense for all x. Note that the formula relating xn+l to xn is the formula relating x(2P) to x(P) for P E E, so that xn = x(2 P). In particular, x,l > e3 = 1.946... for n > 1, where e1 < e2 < e3 denote the roots of the polynomial 4x3 28x + 25, so zn lies between 1 and 1.328 ... and log zn between 0 and 0.284.... Therefore the series in (5) or (6) converges very rapidly and we can calculate h ( P) to any desired degree of accuracy. Formula (4) is the specialization to our case of a general recipe of Tate [6] for computing heights; indeed, F(x(P)) is Tate's formula for the infinite component of ( P, P) while ord,(b)log p (p prime) gives the p-component of the canonical height (even for the prime p = 5077 of bad reduction, since the fiber of the Neron model at p is irreducible). However, Tate's result, although quoted in the literature, has not yet been published, so we give a direct proof of (4) in our case. By virtue of the definition, it will suffice to show that the expression on the right-hand side of (4) differs by a bounded amount from h (P) and is multiplied by 4 if P is replaced by 2P. By the formula already cited, replacing P by 2P replaces x(P) = a/b by x(2P) = a*/b*, where a* = a4 + 14a2b250ab3 + 49b4, b* = 4a3b28ab3 + 25b4. We claim that b* is the exact denominator of x(2P). Indeed, an elementary calculation with g.c.d.'s shows that (a*, b*) = 1 for any integers a, b with (a, b) = 1 unless a 92b (mod5077), in which case 50771(a*, b*). But this cannot happen here, since 4x3 28x + 25 = 4(x 92)2(x + 184) + 5077(20x 1227) would be divisible by 5077 but not by 50772 if x were 92 (mod 5077) and hence, could not be a square. (This is an elementary restatement of the fact that the Neron model at 5077 has only one component.) On the other hand, replacing P by 2P replaces xn, zn by x,n+1, Zn+ in (5), so