Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture

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The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture is a central unsolved problem in number theory that predicts a deep connection between the arithmetic of rational points on an elliptic curve and the behavior of its associated L-function at a specific value.

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instanceOf mathematical conjecture
unsolved problem in mathematics
unsolved problem in number theory
basedOn computational experiments on elliptic curves
numerical evidence for behavior of L-functions at s = 1
concerns L-functions of elliptic curves
elliptic curves
rational points on elliptic curves
difficulty considered extremely difficult
field number theory
hasPart strong Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
weak Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
hasPrize US$1,000,000 prize
holdsFor many elliptic curves in special cases
implies deep relations between analytic and arithmetic invariants of elliptic curves
finiteness of the Tate–Shafarevich group for elliptic curves
importance central problem in modern number theory
namedAfter Bryan Birch
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
offeredBy Clay Mathematics Institute
partiallyProvedBy Andrew Wiles
Bryan Birch
John Coates
Karl Rubin
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
Victor Kolyvagin
predicts elliptic curve has finitely many rational points if and only if its L-function does not vanish at s = 1
elliptic curve has infinitely many rational points if and only if its L-function vanishes at s = 1
leading Taylor coefficient of L-function at s = 1 is given by arithmetic invariants of the elliptic curve
rank of an elliptic curve equals order of vanishing of its L-function at s = 1
recognizedAs one of the Millennium Prize Problems
relatedTo Beilinson conjectures
Tate Conjecture
surface form: Hasse–Weil conjecture

Iwasawa theory
Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture
surface form: Modularity theorem

Faltings' theorem
surface form: Mordell conjecture
relatesConcept Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture self-linksurface differs
surface form: Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer formula

Hasse–Weil zeta function
surface form: Hasse–Weil L-function

Mordell–Weil theorem
surface form: Mordell–Weil group

Tamagawa numbers
Cassels–Tate pairing
surface form: Tate–Shafarevich group

conductor of an elliptic curve
order of vanishing of an L-function
rank of an elliptic curve
regulator of an elliptic curve
status open
subfield arithmetic geometry
arithmetic of elliptic curves
timeProposed 1960s

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Millennium Prize Problem hasProblem Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Millennium Prize Problem includes Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture relatesConcept Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer formula
Hasse–Weil zeta function relatedTo Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
this entity surface form: Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Diophantine geometry relatedTo Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
this entity surface form: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Iwasawa theory relatedTo Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
this entity surface form: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
L-functions playsRoleIn Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
subject surface form: L-function
this entity surface form: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture