Rational Points on Modular Elliptic Curves
| Author/creator | Darmon, Henri Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Providence : American Mathematical Society |
| Description | 129 p. ill |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics - Backfile |
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| Series | CBMS Regional Conference Ser. in Mathematics Ser. 101 |
| Summary | Annotation The book surveys some recent developments in the arithmetic of modular elliptic curves. It places a special emphasis on the construction of rational points on elliptic curves, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and the crucial role played by modularity in shedding light on these two closely related issues. The main theme of the book is the theory of complex multiplication, Heegner points, and some conjectural variants. The first three chapters introduce the background and prerequisites: elliptic curves, modular forms and the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture, complex multiplication and the Heegner point construction. The next three chapters introduce variants of modular parametrizations in which modular curves are replaced by Shimura curves attached to certain indefinite quaternion algebras. The main new contributions are found in Chapters 7-9, which survey the author's attempts to extend the theory of Heegner points and complex multiplication to situations where the base field is not a CM field. Chapter 10 explains the proof of Kolyvagin's theorem, which relates Heegner points to the arithmetic of elliptic curves and leads to the so-far best evidence for the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003063735 |
| ISBN | 9780821828687 |
| ISBN | 0821828681 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780821828687 |
| Stock number | 00001436 |
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