Problems / number-theory
number-theory / Arithmetic of elliptic curves; arithmetic statistics
Goldfeld's conjecture on analytic ranks of quadratic twists
Density paper: for every E/Q and j∈{0,1}, the proportion of squarefree 0<∣d∣≤X with a(E(d))=j tends to 1/2; 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∞-Selmer corank is 0 or 1 it equals the analytic and Mordell-Weil ranks and Sha is finite. Mean paper: #D(Y)1∑da(E(d))→1/2, via a tail bound on high-rank twists, plus algebraic-rank moments. Both use signed squarefree twists ordered by ∣d∣, not Goldfeld's discriminant ordering; no higher analytic-rank moments are claimed.