Heegner points at Eisenstein primes and twists of elliptic curves

TL;DR

This paper proves Goldfeld's conjecture for elliptic curves with a rational 3-isogeny and for certain sextic twists, using Heegner points at Eisenstein primes, and confirms the 3-part of BSD for many j-invariant 0 curves.

Contribution

It establishes a criterion for the non-triviality of Heegner points at Eisenstein primes and applies it to prove cases of Goldfeld's conjecture and BSD for specific elliptic curves.

Findings

Goldfeld's conjecture holds for elliptic curves with a rational 3-isogeny.

The 3-part of BSD is proven for many j-invariant 0 elliptic curves.

A general criterion for Heegner points at Eisenstein primes is developed.

Abstract

Given an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$, a celebrated conjecture of Goldfeld asserts that a positive proportion of its quadratic twists should have analytic rank 0 (resp. 1). We show this conjecture holds whenever $E$ has a rational 3-isogeny. We also prove the analogous result for the sextic twists of $j$-invariant 0 curves (Mordell curves). To prove these results, we establish a general criterion for the non-triviality of the $p$-adic logarithm of Heegner points at an Eisenstein prime $p$, in terms of the relative $p$-class numbers of certain number fields and then apply this criterion to the special case $p=3$. As a by-product, we also prove the 3-part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for many elliptic curves of $j$-invariant 0.