Elliptic curves with all quadratic twists of positive rank
We study the endomorphism algebra of the motive attached to a non-CM elliptic modular cusp form. We prove that this algebra has a sub-algebra isomorphic to a certain crossed product algebra . The Tate conjecture predicts that is the full endomorphism algebra of the motive. We also investigate the Brauer class of . For example we show that if the nebentypus is real and is a prime that does not divide the level, then the local behaviour of at a place lying above is essentially determined...
We study some functional equations between Mahler measures of genus-one curves in terms of isogenies between the curves. These equations have the potential to establish relationships between Mahler measure and especial values of -functions. These notes are based on a talk that the author gave at the “Cuartas Jornadas de Teoría de Números”, Bilbao, 2011.
We compute, in a unified way, the equations of all hyperelliptic modular curves. The main tool is provided by a class of modular functions introduced by Newman in 1957. The method uses the action of the hyperelliptic involution on the cusps.
C. J. Smyth was among the first to study the spectrum of the Weil height in the field of all totally real numbers, establishing both lower and upper bounds for the limit infimum of the height of all totally real integers, and determining isolated values of the height. Later, Bombieri and Zannier established similar results for totally p-adic numbers and, inspired by work of Ullmo and Zhang, termed this the Bogomolov property. In this paper, we use results on equidistribution of points of low height...
On montre dans cet article que le théorème d’équidistribution de Szpiro-Ullmo-Zhang concernant les suites de petits points sur les variétés abéliennes s’étend au cas des suites de sous-variétés. On donne également une version quantitative de ce résultat.
Given a rational function on of degree at least 2 with coefficients in a number field , we show that for each place of , there is a unique probability measure on the Berkovich space such that if is a sequence of points in whose -canonical heights tend to zero, then the ’s and their -conjugates are equidistributed with respect to .The proof uses a polynomial lift of to construct a two-variable Arakelov-Green’s function for each . The measure is obtained by taking the...
In 1994, the well-known Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol was for the first time implemented in a non-group based setting. Here, the underlying key space was the set of reduced principal ideals of a real quadratic number field. This set does not possess a group structure, but instead exhibits a so-called infrastructure. More recently, the scheme was extended to real quadratic congruence function fields, whose set of reduced principal ideals has a similar infrastructure. As always, the security...