Slightly improved sum-product estimates in fields of prime order
Our aim in this paper is to prove congruences between on the one hand certain eigenforms of level and weight greater than 2 and on the other hand twists of eigenforms of level and weight 2. One knows a priori that such congruences exist; the novelty here is that we determine the character of the form of weight 2 and the twist in terms of the slope of the higher weight form, i.e., in terms of the valuation of its eigenvalue for . Curiously, we also find a relation between the leading terms of...
We obtain a conditional, under the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, lower bound on the number of distinct elliptic curves over a prime finite field of elements, such that the discriminant of the quadratic number field containing the endomorphism ring of over is small. For almost all primes we also obtain a similar unconditional bound. These lower bounds complement an upper bound of F. Luca and I. E. Shparlinski (2007).
Let be an elliptic curve defined over , the finite field of elements. We show that for some constant depending only on , there are infinitely many positive integers such that the exponent of , the group of -rational points on , is at most . This is an analogue of a result of R. Schoof on the exponent of the group of -rational points, when a fixed elliptic curve is defined over and the prime tends to infinity.
Let be a finite extension of a global field. Such an extension can be generated over by a single element. The aim of this article is to prove the existence of a ”small” generator in the function field case. This answers the function field version of a question of Ruppert on small generators of number fields.
Let be an algebraic subvariety of a torus and denote by the complement in of the Zariski closure of the set of torsion points of . By a theorem of Zhang, is discrete for the metric induced by the normalized height . We describe some quantitative versions of this result, close to the conjectural bounds, and we discuss some applications to study of the class group of some number fields.