Proceedings of the Newton Institute workshop on RMT and ranks of elliptic curves

Download [proceedings] in pdf format of the Clay workshop at the Newton institute, February 2004, edited by Conrey, Farmer, Mezzadri, and Snaith.

Contents

Introduction 1 J. B. Conrey, D. W. Farmer, F. Mezzadri, and N. C. Snaith

Families Elliptic curves, rank in families and random matrices 7 E. Kowalski

Modeling families of L-functions 53 D. W. Farmer

Analytic number theory and ranks of elliptic curves 71 M. P. Young

The derivative of SO(2N +1) characteristic polynomials and rank 3 elliptic curves 93

N. C. Snaith Function Żelds and random matrices 109

D. Ulmer Some applications of symmetric functions theory in random matrix theory 143

A. Gamburd Ranks of quadratic twists

The distribution of ranks in families of quadratic twists of elliptic curves 171 A. Silverberg

Twists of elliptic curves of rank at least four 177 K. Rubin and A. Silverberg

The powers of logarithm for quadratic twists 189 C. Delaunay and M. Watkins

Note on the frequency of vanishing of L-functions of elliptic curves in a family of quadratic twists 195 C. Delaunay

Discretisation for odd quadratic twists 201 J. B. Conrey, M. O. Rubinstein, N. C. Snaith and M. Watkins

Secondary terms in the number of vanishings of quadratic twists of elliptic curve L-functions 215 J. B. Conrey, A. Pokharel, M. O. Rubinstein and M. Watkins

Fudge Factors in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture 233 K. Rubin

Number fields and higher twists Rank distribution in a family of cubic twists 237 M. Watkins

Vanishing of L-functions of elliptic curves over number Fields 247 C. David, J. Fearnley and H. Kisilevsky

Shimura correspondence, and twists Computing central values of L-functions 260 F. Rodriguez-Villegas

Computation of central value of quadratic twists of modular Lˇfunctions 273 Z. Mao, F. Rodriguez-Villegas and G. Tornaria

Examples of Shimura correspondence for level p2 and real quadratic twists 289 A. Pacetti and G. Tornaria

Central values of quadratic twists for a modular form of weight 4 315 H. Rosson and G. Tornaria

Global structure: Sha and descent Heuristics on class groups and on Tate-Shafarevich groups 323 C. Delaunay

A Note on the 2-Part of X for the Congruent Number Curves 341 D.R. Heath-Brown

2-Descent Through the Ages 345 P. Swinnerton-Dyer




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