Minorations de hauteurs sur les variétés abéliennes
Kaneko and Sakai (2013) recently observed that certain elliptic curves whose associated newforms (by the modularity theorem) are given by the eta-quotients can be characterized by a particular differential equation involving modular forms and Ramanujan-Serre differential operator. In this paper, we study certain properties of the modular parametrization associated to the elliptic curves over ℚ, and as a consequence we generalize and explain some of their findings.
We study the family of elliptic curves y² = x(x-a²)(x-b²) parametrized by Pythagorean triples (a,b,c). We prove that for a generic triple the lower bound of the rank of the Mordell-Weil group over ℚ is 1, and for some explicitly given infinite family the rank is 2. To each family we attach an elliptic surface fibered over the projective line. We show that the lower bounds for the rank are optimal, in the sense that for each generic fiber of such an elliptic surface its corresponding Mordell-Weil...
We generalize L. J. Mordell’s construction of cubic surfaces for which the Hasse principle fails.