Selmer-corank conjecture for elliptic curves over the rationals

Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q}, and let ran(E/Q)r_{\rm an}(E/\mathbb{Q}) be the order of vanishing of L(E/Q,s)L(E/\mathbb{Q},s) at s=1s=1. For a prime pp, let rp(E/Q)r_p(E/\mathbb{Q}) denote the Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-corank of the Selmer group Selp(E/Q)\operatorname{Sel}_{p^\infty}(E/\mathbb{Q}). Selmer-corank conjecture. If

ran(E/Q)2,r_{\rm an}(E/\mathbb{Q})\geq 2,

then

rp(E/Q)2.r_p(E/\mathbb{Q})\geq 2.

This is a weaker Selmer-theoretic version of the preceding Mordell–Weil rank conjecture; the paper explains that the Selmer corank is at least the Mordell–Weil rank, with equality linked to finiteness of the pp-primary Shafarevich–Tate group.

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Dimitar Jetchev, Kristin Lauter and William Stein, “Explicit Heegner Points: Kolyvagin's Conjecture and Non-trivial Elements in the Shafarevich-Tate Group”, arXiv:0707.0032 (2007).

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