A Random Matrix Model for Elliptic Curve L-Functions of Finite Conductor

Details A Random Matrix Model for Elliptic Curve L-Functions of Finite Conductor A Random Matrix Model for Elliptic Curve L-Functions of Finite Conductor

2011-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4426v3

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012) 115207 (32pp)

Mathematics

Number Theory

38 pages, version 2 (added some plots)

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/45/11/115207

We propose a random matrix model for families of elliptic curve L-functions of finite conductor. A repulsion of the critical zeros of these L-functions away from the center of the critical strip was observed numerically by S. J. Miller in 2006; such behaviour deviates qualitatively from the conjectural limiting distribution of the zeros (for large conductors this distribution is expected to approach the one-level density of eigenvalues of orthogonal matrices after appropriate rescaling).Our purpose here is to provide a random matrix model for Miller's surprising discovery. We consider the family of even quadratic twists of a given elliptic curve. The main ingredient in our model is a calculation of the eigenvalue distribution of random orthogonal matrices whose characteristic polynomials are larger than some given value at the symmetry point in the spectra. We call this sub-ensemble of SO(2N) the excised orthogonal ensemble. The sieving-off of matrices with small values of the characteristic polynomial is akin to the discretization of the central values of L-functions implied by the formula of Waldspurger and Kohnen-Zagier.The cut-off scale appropriate to modeling elliptic curve L-functions is exponentially small relative to the matrix size N. The one-level density of the excised ensemble can be expressed in terms of that of the well-known Jacobi ensemble, enabling the former to be explicitly calculated. It exhibits an exponentially small (on the scale of the mean spacing) hard gap determined by the cut-off value, followed by soft repulsion on a much larger scale. Neither of these features is present in the one-level density of SO(2N). When N tends to infinity we recover the limiting orthogonal behaviour. Our results agree qualitatively with Miller's discrepancy. Choosing the cut-off appropriately gives a model in good quantitative agreement with the number-theoretical data.

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