Refined Lang–Trotter conjecture for varying Frobenius traces

Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q}), let C>1C>1, and let rr range uniformly over integers satisfying r2x|r|\leq 2\sqrt{x}; exclude r=0r=0 when EE has complex multiplication. Define

ΦE(z)={1z2,if E does not have CM,11z2,if E has CM.\Phi_E(z)=\begin{cases}\sqrt{1-z^2},&\text{if $E$ does not have CM},\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{1-z^2}},&\text{if $E$ has CM}. \end{cases}

Refined Lang–Trotter conjecture. Uniformly in this range,

πE,r(x)=CE,rmax{2,r2/4}xΦE(r/(2t))2tlogtdt+OE,C(x(logx)C),\pi_{E,r}(x)=C_{E,r}\int_{\max\{2,r^2/4\}}^x\frac{\Phi_E(r/(2\sqrt{t}))}{2\sqrt{t}\log t}\,dt+O_{E,C}\left(\frac{\sqrt{x}}{(\log x)^C}\right),

where CE,rC_{E,r} is the constant in the Lang–Trotter conjecture. This refinement incorporates the Sato–Tate or CM distribution and the fact that primes counted must satisfy pr2/4p\geq r^2/4; its uniform validity remains open.

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Primary source

Stephan Baier and Nathan Jones, “A refined version of the Lang-Trotter Conjecture”, arXiv:0801.3946 (2008).

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