Murmurations and Sato-Tate Conjectures for High Rank Zetas of Elliptic Curves

As a continuation of our earlier paper, we offer a new approach to murmurations and Sato-Tate laws for higher rank zetas of elliptic curves. Our approach here does not depend on the Riemann hypothesis for the so-called a-invariant in rank n>2 even for the Sato-Tate law, rather, on a much refined structure, a similar version of which was already observed by Zagier and the senior author when the rank n Riemann hypothesis was established. Namely, instead of the rank n Riemann hy...

This paper investigates the detection of the rank of elliptic curves with ranks 0 and 1, employing a heuristic known as the Mestre-Nagao sum \[ S(B) = \frac{1}{\log{B}} \sum_{\substack{p<B \\ \textrm{good reduction}}} \frac{a_p(E)\log{p}}{p}, \] where $a_p(E)$ is defined as $p + 1 - \#E(\mathbb{F}_p)$ for an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}$ with good reduction at prime $p$. This approach is inspired by the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Our observations reveal an osci...

Subject to GRH, we prove that murmurations arise for primitive quadratic Dirichlet characters, and for holomorphic modular forms of prime level tending to infinity with sign and weight fixed. Moreover, subject to ratios conjectures, we prove that murmurations arise for elliptic curves ordered by height, and for quadratic twists of a fixed elliptic curve. We demonstrate the existence of murmurations for these arithmetic families using results from random matrix theory.

We investigate the average value of the $p$th Dirichlet coefficients of elliptic curves for a prime p in a fixed conductor range with given rank. Plotting this average yields a striking oscillating pattern, the details of which vary with the rank. Based on this observation, we perform various data-scientific experiments with the goal of classifying elliptic curves according to their ranks.

We describe some experiments that show a connection between elliptic curves of high rank and the Riemann zeta function on the one line. We also discuss a couple of statistics involving $L$-functions where the zeta function on the one line plays a prominent role.

Unexpected oscillations in $a_p$ values in a family of elliptic curves were observed experimentally by He, Lee, Oliver, and Pozdnyakov. We propose a heuristic explanation for these oscillations based on the "explicit formula" from analytic number theory. A crucial ingredient in this heuristic is that the distribution of the zeros of the associated $L$-functions has a quasi-periodic structure. We present empirical results for a family of elliptic curves, a family of quadratic ...

We establish a case of the surprising correlation phenomenon observed in the recent works of He, Lee, Oliver, Pozdnyakov, and Sutherland between Fourier coefficients of families of modular forms and their root numbers.

We provide a new interpretation of the Mazur-Tate Conjecture and then use it to obtain the first (unconditional) theoretical evidence in support of the conjecture for elliptic curves of strictly positive rank.

We present an heuristic argument for the prediction of expected Mordell-Weil rank of elliptic curves over number fields, using Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer's original conjecture and Sato-Tate conjectures. We do calculations in some cases and raise questions about their relations, if any, with the predictions of various average rank models that have been considered.

We obtain new results concerning the Sato--Tate conjecture on the distribution of Frobenius angles over parametric families of elliptic curves with a rational parameter of bounded height.