Poonen–Rains conjecture on Selmer group distributions of elliptic curves
Poonen–Rains conjecture on Selmer group distributions of elliptic curves
Fix a global field and a prime . For an elliptic curve over , let denote its -Selmer group, and let be the orthogonal-space distribution
Poonen–Rains conjecture. As varies over all elliptic curves over ordered by height,
Consequently, the average size of for all elliptic curves is . This conjecture models Selmer groups as intersections of maximal isotropic subspaces in orthogonal spaces; the source gives no resolution status.
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Primary source
Jie Shu, “Quadratic spaces and Selmer groups of abelian varieties with multiplication”, arXiv:2504.21272 (2025).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2211.11486, arXiv:2104.06732, arXiv:1711.10112, arXiv:1208.6397.
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