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The conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for elliptic curves with complex multiplication by a nonmaximal order

Posted on:2005-06-12Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:California Institute of TechnologyCandidate:Colwell, JasonFull Text:PDF
GTID:1458390008995665Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer relates an analytic invariant of an elliptic curve---the value of the L-function, to an algebraic invariant of the curve---the order of the Tate-Safarevic group. Gross has refined the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture in the case of an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by the full ring of integers in a quadratic imaginary field. It is this version which interests us here. Gross' Conjecture has been reformulated, by Fontaine and Perrin-Riou, in the language of derived categories and determinants of perfect complexes. Burns and Flach then realized that this immediately leads to a refined conjecture for elliptic curves with complex multiplication by a nonmaximal order. The conjecture is now expressed as a statement concerning a generator of the image of a map of 1-dimensional modules. We prove this conjecture of Burns and Flach.
Keywords/Search Tags:Conjecture, Elliptic curves with complex multiplication, Birch and swinnerton-dyer, Nonmaximal order, Burns and flach
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