Delaunay–Poonen–Rains conjecture for the density of elliptic curves with nontrivial Tate–Shafarevich group

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Let pp be an odd prime. Let Tp\mathfrak{T}_p denote the set of elliptic curves E/QE_{/\mathbb{Q}} such that the pp-primary part of the Tate–Shafarevich group Sh(E/Q)[p∞]Sh(E/\mathbb{Q})[p^\infty] is nonzero, and let d‾\underline{\mathfrak{d}} and d\mathfrak{d} denote the lower and ordinary densities used above. A set E\mathcal{E} of elliptic curves is defined by local congruence conditions when membership is determined by finitely many local congruence conditions. Delaunay–Poonen–Rains conjecture. With respect to the notation above,

d‾(Tp)≥1−∏i≥1(1−p−(2i−1))>p−1+p−3−p−4.\underline{\mathfrak{d}}(\mathfrak{T}_p)\geq 1-\prod_{i\geq 1}\left(1-p^{-(2i-1)}\right)>p^{-1}+p^{-3}-p^{-4}.

Moreover, for every set E\mathcal{E} of elliptic curves defined by local congruence conditions,

d‾(Tp∩E)=d‾(Tp)d(E).\underline{\mathfrak{d}}(\mathfrak{T}_p\cap\mathcal{E})=\underline{\mathfrak{d}}(\mathfrak{T}_p)\mathfrak{d}(\mathcal{E}).

The claim records the predictions attributed to Delaunay and Poonen–Rains, based on Cohen–Lenstra heuristics and random matrix theory; the source assumes finiteness of the pp-primary Tate–Shafarevich group, and no resolution is supplied here.

References

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Anwesh Ray and Tom Weston, “Class group statistics for torsion fields generated by elliptic curves”, arXiv:2204.09757 (2024).

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