Abstract
A large part of modern arithmetic geometry is dedicated to or motivated by the study of rational points on varieties. For an elliptic curve over ℚ, the set of rational points forms a finitely generated abelian group. The ranks of these groups, when ranging over all elliptic curves, are conjectured to be evenly distributed between rank 0 and rank 1, with higher ranks being negligible. We will describe these conjectures and discuss some results on bounds for average rank, highlighting recent work of Bhargava and Shankar.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 27-52 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics