Root numbers and ranks in positive characteristic

Details Root numbers and ranks in positive characteristic Root numbers and ranks in positive characteristic

2004-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/math/0408153v4

Mathematics

Number Theory

40 pages; last version; to appear in Adv. Math

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For a global field K and an elliptic curve E_eta over K(T), Silverman's specialization theorem implies that rank(E_eta(K(T))) <= rank(E_t(K)) for all but finitely many t in P^1(K). If this inequality is strict for all but finitely many t, the elliptic curve E_eta is said to have elevated rank. All known examples of elevated rank for K=Q rest on the parity conjecture for elliptic curves over Q, and the examples are all isotrivial. Some additional standard conjectures over Q imply that there does not exist a non-isotrivial elliptic curve over Q(T) with elevated rank. In positive characteristic, an analogue of one of these additional conjectures is false. Inspired by this, for the rational function field K = kappa(u) over any finite field kappa with odd characteristic, we construct an explicit 2-parameter family E_{c,d} of non-isotrivial elliptic curves over K(T) (depending on arbitrary c, d in kappa^*) such that, under the parity conjecture, each E_{c,d} has elevated rank.

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