The rank of hyperelliptic Jacobians in families of quadratic twists
The variation of the rank of elliptic curves over in families of quadratic twists has been extensively studied by Gouvêa, Mazur, Stewart, Top, Rubin and Silverberg. It is known, for example, that any elliptic curve over admits infinitely many quadratic twists of rank . Most elliptic curves have even infinitely many twists of rank and examples of elliptic curves with infinitely many twists of rank are known. There are also certain density results. This paper studies the variation of the...