number-theory / Arithmetic of elliptic curves; arithmetic statistics

Goldfeld's conjecture on analytic ranks of quadratic twists

Density paper: for every E/QE/\mathbb{Q} and j∈{0,1}j\in\{0,1\}, the proportion of squarefree 0<∣d∣≤X0<|d|\le X with a(E(d))=ja(E^{(d)})=j tends to 1/21/2; on a density-one set analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks agree and Sha is finite. The main new input is the 2-converse: if the 2∞2^\infty-Selmer corank is 0 or 1 it equals the analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks and Sha is finite. Mean paper: 1#D(Y)∑da(E(d))→1/2\frac{1}{\#\mathcal D(Y)}\sum_{d}a(E^{(d)})\to1/2, via a tail bound on high-rank twists, plus algebraic-rank moments. Both use signed squarefree twists ordered by ∣d∣|d|, not Goldfeld's discriminant ordering; no higher analytic-rank moments are claimed.

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number-theorySep 23, 2026Significance 55/100Registry: unreviewed

Goldfeld's conjecture on analytic ranks of quadratic twists

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Density paper: for every E/QE/\mathbb{Q} and j∈{0,1}j\in\{0,1\}, the proportion of squarefree 0<∣d∣≤X0<|d|\le X with a(E(d))=ja(E^{(d)})=j tends to 1/21/2; on a density-one set analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks agree and Sha is finite. The main new input is the 2-converse: if the 2∞2^\infty-Selmer corank is 0 or 1 it equals the analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks and Sha is finite. Mean paper:…

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Density paper: for every E/QE/\mathbb{Q} and j∈{0,1}j\in\{0,1\}, the proportion of squarefree 0<∣d∣≤X0<|d|\le X with a(E(d))=ja(E^{(d)})=j tends to 1/21/2; on a density-one set analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks agree and Sha is finite. The main new input is the 2-converse: if the 2∞2^\infty-Selmer corank is 0 or 1 it equals the analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks and Sha is finite. Mean paper: 1#D(Y)∑da(E(d))→1/2\frac{1}{\#\mathcal D(Y)}\sum_{d}a(E^{(d)})\to1/2, via a tail bound on high-rank twists, plus algebraic-rank moments. Both use signed squarefree twists ordered by ∣d∣|d|, not Goldfeld's discriminant ordering; no higher analytic-rank moments are claimed.

Density paper: for every E/QE/\mathbb{Q} and j∈{0,1}j\in\{0,1\}, the proportion of squarefree 0<∣d∣≤X0<|d|\le X with a(E(d))=ja(E^{(d)})=j tends to 1/21/2; on a density-one set analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks agree and Sha is finite. The main new input is the 2-converse: if the 2∞2^\infty-Selmer corank is 0 or 1 it equals the analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks and Sha is finite. Mean paper: 1#D(Y)∑da(E(d))→1/2\frac{1}{\#\mathcal D(Y)}\sum_{d}a(E^{(d)})\to1/2, via a tail bound on high-rank twists, plus algebraic-rank moments. Both use signed squarefree twists ordered by ∣d∣|d|, not Goldfeld's discriminant ordering; no higher analytic-rank moments are claimed.

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Goldfeld's conjecture on analytic ranks of quadratic twists — Mathematical Frontier Network