Zeta elements for elliptic curves and applications

TL;DR

This paper constructs p-adic zeta elements for elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields, proving main conjectures and applying these results to verify cases of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, including for non-CM curves.

Contribution

It introduces the existence of p-adic zeta elements for elliptic curves over quadratic fields and applies them to prove main conjectures and BSD-related results.

Findings

Proof of main conjecture for semistable elliptic curves at supersingular primes

First infinite families of non-CM elliptic curves satisfying BSD

New evidence for p-converse to Gross--Zagier and Kolyvagin theorems

Abstract

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ with conductor $N$ and $p\nmid 2N$ a prime. Let $L$ be an imaginary quadratic field with $p$ split. We prove the existence of $p$-adic zeta element for $E$ over $L$, encoding two different $p$-adic $L$-functions associated to $E$ over $L$ via explicit reciprocity laws at the primes above $p$. We formulate a main conjecture for $E$ over $L$ in terms of the zeta element, mediating different main conjectures in which the $p$-adic $L$-functions appear, and prove some results toward them. The zeta element has various applications to the arithmetic of elliptic curves. This includes a proof of main conjecture for semistable elliptic curves $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ at supersingular primes $p$, as conjectured by Kobayashi in 2002. It leads to the $p$-part of the conjectural Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) formula for such curves of analytic rank zero or one, and enables us to present the first infinite families of non-CM elliptic curves for which the BSD conjecture is true. We provide further evidence towards the BSD conjecture: new cases of $p$-converse to the Gross--Zagier and Kolyvagin theorem, and $p$-part of the BSD formula for ordinary primes $p$. Along the way, we give a proof of a conjecture of Perrin-Riou connecting Beilinson--Kato elements with rational points.