Lang–Trotter conjecture for simultaneous supersingular reduction

Let (E1,E2)(E_1,E_2) be a pair of elliptic curves defined over Q\mathbb{Q}. Assume that neither curve has complex multiplication and that they are not isogenous over Q\overline{\mathbb{Q}}. Define

πE1,E2(x):=#{px:E1 and E2 have supersingular reduction modulo p}.\pi_{E_1,E_2}(x):=\#\left\{p\leq x:E_1\text{ and }E_2\text{ have supersingular reduction modulo }p\right\}.

Lang–Trotter conjecture for pairs. There exists a non-negative constant cE1,E2c_{E_1,E_2} such that

πE1,E2(x)cE1,E2loglogx\pi_{E_1,E_2}(x)\sim c_{E_1,E_2}\log\log x

as xx\to\infty.

Lang and Trotter proposed this asymptotic as part of a probabilistic model for Frobenius traces, based on Sato–Tate heuristics. The source recalls it as an input for subsequent height bounds and gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Christopher Daw and Georgios Papas, “Lang-Trotter phenomena and unlikely intersections”, arXiv:2605.00759 (2026).

Additional references

21 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2509.16848, arXiv:2309.09938, arXiv:2206.00872, arXiv:2108.08727, arXiv:2106.01517, arXiv:2101.06202, arXiv:2012.12534, arXiv:2006.11269, arXiv:1906.00632, arXiv:1904.08296, arXiv:1711.00176, arXiv:1710.02125, and 8 more.

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