Silverman's rank conjecture for elliptic curves in one-parameter families

Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q(t)\mathbb{Q}(t), let E(A1)E(\mathbb{A}^1) denote the elliptic curve over the function field Q(t)\mathbb{Q}(t), and let E(t)E(t) denote its specialization at tQt\in\mathbb{Q}. Order rational numbers tt by height. Silverman's conjecture. For almost all tQt\in\mathbb{Q}, one has

rankE(A1)rankE(t)1+rankE(A1).\operatorname{rank} E(\mathbb{A}^1)\leqslant \operatorname{rank} E(t)\leqslant 1+\operatorname{rank} E(\mathbb{A}^1).

This is presented as a natural analogue of Goldfeld's conjecture for quadratic twists. The supplied text does not state a resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

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Primary source

Peter Koymans, Carlo Pagano and Efthymios Sofos, “Elliptic fibrations and 3 2^k”, arXiv:2409.02080 (2024).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1710.00294, arXiv:1401.6677.

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