Mazur–Rubin's conjecture on Selmer near-companion elliptic curves

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Let KK be a number field, let pp be a prime, and let E1E_1 and E2E_2 be elliptic curves over KK. They are pp-Selmer near-companions over KK if there exists a constant C=C(E1,E2,K)C=C(E_1,E_2,K) such that for every χ∈Hom⁡(GK,{±1})\chi\in\operatorname{Hom}(G_K,\{\pm1\}),

∣dim⁡pSel⁡p(E2χ/K)−dim⁡pSel⁡p(E1χ/K)∣<C.\left|\dim_p\operatorname{Sel}_p(E_2^\chi/K)-\dim_p\operatorname{Sel}_p(E_1^\chi/K)\right|<C.

Mazur–Rubin's conjecture. If E1E_1 and E2E_2 are pp-Selmer near-companions over KK, then there exists a GKG_K-module isomorphism

E1[p]≅E2[p].E_1[p]\cong E_2[p].

The conjecture relates uniform agreement of the dimensions of the quadratic twists' pp-Selmer groups to the associated mod-pp Galois representations. Yu proved the conjecture when n=2n=2, while the general statement is presented here as the conjecture of Mazur and Rubin.

References

Primary source

Minseok Kim, “p-twisted Selmer near-companion curves”, arXiv:2504.10896 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1610.01195.

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