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Seminar

There are infinitely many elliptic curves over the rationals of rank 2

Speaker
David Zywina (Cornell)
Date
Mon, Jun 2 2025, 2:00pm
Location
383N
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For an elliptic curve E defined over Q, the Mordell-Weil group E(Q) is a finitely generated abelian group. We prove that there are infinitely many elliptic curves E over Q for which E(Q) has rank 2. Our elliptic curves will be given by explicit models and their ranks will be found using a 2-descent. The infinitude of such elliptic curves will make use of a theorem of Tao and Ziegler.  Time permitting we also describe some related results over general number field