Take E/ℚ to be an elliptic curve with full rational 2-torsion (satisfying some extra technical assumptions). In this talk, we will show that 100% of the quadratic twists of E have rank less than two, thus proving that the BSD conjecture implies Goldfeld’s conjecture in these families. To do this, we will extend Kane’s distributional results on the 2-Selmer groups in these families to 2k-Selmer groups for any k>1. In addition, using the close analogy between 2k-Selmer groups and 2k+1-class groups, we will prove that the 2k+1-class groups of the quadratic imaginary fields are distributed as predicted by the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for all k>1.
This video is part of the Institute for Advanced Study‘s Number theory seminar.
