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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 209 - Number Theory

Jason Colwell

UCSD

The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for elliptic curves with complex multiplication by a nonmaximal order

Abstract:

Gross has refined the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture in the case of an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by a nonmaximal order. Gross' Conjecture has been reformulated in the language of derived categories and determinants of perfect complexes. Burns and Flach have realized that this immediately leads to a refinement of Gross' Conjecture. The conjecture is now expressed as a statement concerning a generator of the image of a map of 1-dimensional modules. This conjecture is proved by a construction which shows it to follow from the Explicit Reciprocity Law and Rubin's Main Conjecture.

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March 9, 2006

2:00 PM

AP&M 7321

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