Building on our previous work on rigid analytic uniformizations, we introduce Darmon points on Jacobians of Shimura curves attached to quaternion algebras over Q and formulate conjectures about their rationality properties. Moreover, if K is a real quadratic field, E is an elliptic curve over Q without complex multiplication and χ is a ring class character such that LK(E,χ, 1) 6= 0 we prove a G...

This proposal falls broadly in the area of number theory and more specifically in arithmetic geometry. It is concerned with a part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture on elliptic curves and abelian varieties. A fundamental problem of number theory is: given a set of polynomial equations with rational coefficients, find all of its rational solutions and investigate their structure....

A positive integer D is called a ‘congruent number’ if there exists a right triangle with rational sidelengths with area D. Over the centuries there have been many investigations attempting to classify the congruent numbers, but little was known until Tunnell [T] brilliantly applied a tour de force of methods and provided a conditional solution to this problem. It turns out that a square-free i...

Let K be a number field, and let A/K be an abelian variety. Let c denote the product of the Tamagawa numbers of A/K, and let A(K)tors denote the finite torsion subgroup of A(K). The quotient c/|A(K)tors| is a factor appearing in the leading term of the L-function of A/K in the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. We investigate in this article possible cancellations in this ratio. Precise r...

Fix an elliptic curve E/Q, and assume the generalized Riemann hypothesis for the L-function L(E D , s) for every quadratic twist E D of E by D ∈ Z. We combine Weil's explicit formula with techniques of Heath-Brown to derive an asymptotic upper bound for the weighted moments of the analytic rank of E D. It follows from this that, for any unbounded increasing function f on R, the analytic rank an...

This article establishes new cases of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in analytic rank 0, for elliptic curves over Q viewed over the fields cut out by certain self-dual Artin representations of dimension at most 4. When the associated L-function vanishes (to even order ≥ 2) at its central point, two canonical classes in the corresponding Selmer group are constructed and shown to be lin...

This paper is the second of a series devoted to the study of the rank of J0(q) (the Jacobian of the modular curve X0(q)), from the analytic point of view stemming from the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, which is tantamount to the study, on average, of the order of vanishing at the central critical point of the L-functions of primitive weight two forms f of level q (q prime). We prove tha...

The value distribution of derivatives of characteristic polynomials of matrices from SO(N) is calculated at the point 1, the symmetry point on the unit circle of the eigenvalues of these matrices. We consider subsets of matrices from SO(N) that are constrained to have n eigenvalues equal to 1, and investigate the first non-zero derivative of the characteristic polynomial at that point. The conn...

We study a subgroup of the Shafarevich-Tate group of an abelian variety known as the visible subgroup. We explain the geometric intuition behind this subgroup, prove its finiteness and describe several techniques for exhibiting visible elements. Two important results are proved one what we call the visualization theorem, which asserts that every element of the Shafarevich-Tate group of an abeli...

In this note, we consider an `-isogeny descent on a pair of elliptic curves over Q. We assume that ` > 3 is a prime. The main result expresses the relevant Selmer groups as kernels of simple explicit maps between finitedimensional F`-vector spaces defined in terms of the splitting fields of the kernels of the two isogenies. We give examples of proving the `-part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer...