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Bounding ranks of elliptic curves

Posted on:2004-07-31Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:The Johns Hopkins UniversityCandidate:Lee, Jung-JoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1468390011968282Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
The purpose of this paper is to provide a new way of approach and get a result on the rank bound problem.; We construct cohomology classes from quadratic twisted elliptic curves very similar to Kolyvagin's cohomology classes. We verify that these cohomology classes satisfy a formula for computation as was obtained by Kolyvagin.; This has an immediate consequence of ED Q⊂E DR 0 if E and D satisfy some conditions which will be described.; The formulas from the construction, combined with mod 2 algebra, gives us a bound of rank EQ⩽2n if Q&parl0;D&parr0; is a PID where n is the number of prime divisors of 2N∞. Here Δ = Δ(E) is the discriminant and N is the conductor of E. This result extends our knowledge on the rank bound.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rank, Bound
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