Lang–Trotter fixed-Frobenius-field conjecture for elliptic curves

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Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q} without complex multiplication, with conductor NN, and let FF be an imaginary quadratic field. For primes of good reduction, define

S(E,F;x)=#{p≤x:p∤N, F(E,p)=F}.S(E,F;x)=\#\{p\leq x:p\nmid N,\ F(E,p)=F\}.

Lang–Trotter fixed-Frobenius-field conjecture. There exists a constant C(E,F)>0C(E,F)>0 such that

S(E,F;x)∼C(E,F)xlog⁡xS(E,F;x)\sim C(E,F)\frac{\sqrt{x}}{\operatorname{log} x}

as x→+∞x\to+\infty. This predicts that each imaginary quadratic Frobenius field occurs with square-root-logarithmic frequency among primes of good reduction. The source attributes the conjecture to Lang and Trotter and cites detailed discussion and results concerning its formulation.

References

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Stephan Baier and Vijay M. Patankar, “Applications of the square sieve to a conjecture of Lang and Trotter for a pair of elliptic curves over the rationals”, arXiv:1710.02125 (2018).

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