Mazur–Tate's order-of-vanishing and weak main conjectures

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Let EE be an elliptic curve over \mathdsQ\mathds{Q}, let KK be an abelian number field of conductor mm, and set G=GK=Gal⁡(K/\mathdsQ)G=G_K=\operatorname{Gal}(K/\mathds{Q}). Let R\mathcal{R} be a ring such that R[G]\mathcal{R}[G] contains the Mazur–Tate element θKMT\theta_K^\mathrm{MT}. Write IR,GI_{\mathcal{R},G} for the augmentation ideal of R[G]\mathcal{R}[G], S(E/K)S(E/K) for the integral Selmer group, r=rk⁡\mathdsZE(\mathdsQ)r=\operatorname{rk}_{\mathds{Z}}E(\mathds{Q}), and sp⁡(m)\operatorname{sp}(m) for the number of primes dividing mm at which EE has split-multiplicative reduction. The zeroth Fitting ideal of an R[G]\mathcal{R}[G]-module MM is denoted by Fitt⁡R[G]0(M)\operatorname{Fitt}^0_{\mathcal{R}[G]}(M).

Mazur–Tate conjecture. The following claims are valid:

θKMT∈IR,Gr+sp⁡(m);\theta_K^\mathrm{MT}\in I_{\mathcal{R},G}^{r+\operatorname{sp}(m)};

\nand

θKMT∈Fitt⁡R[G]0(S(E/K)⊗\mathdsZR).\theta_K^\mathrm{MT}\in\operatorname{Fitt}^0_{\mathcal{R}[G]}(S(E/K)\otimes_{\mathds{Z}}\mathcal{R}).

These are respectively the order-of-vanishing conjecture and the weak main conjecture of Mazur and Tate. The paper studies their pp-parts and proves results under suitable hypotheses, but the claims are presented here as conjectures and are not resolved in general.

References

Primary source

Dominik Bullach and Matthew H. L. Honnor, “On the refined `Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer type' conjectures of Mazur and Tate”, arXiv:2511.07203 (2025).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2203.12157, arXiv:2008.02422, arXiv:1804.00418, arXiv:1612.03743.

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