Mazur's torsionness conjecture for the elliptic-curve Selmer group

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Let EE be an elliptic curve over a number field KK, let K∞/KK_\infty/K be the cyclotomic Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-extension, and write Γ=Gal⁡(K∞/K)≅Zp\Gamma=\operatorname{Gal}(K_\infty/K)\cong\mathbb{Z}_p. Let Λ=Zp[[Γ]]\Lambda=\mathbb{Z}_p[[\Gamma]], and let SelE(K∞)[p∞]∨{\rm Sel}_{E}(K_\infty)[p^\infty]^{\lor} be the Pontryagin dual of the pp-primary Selmer group.

Mazur's conjecture. The Λ\Lambda-module SelE(K∞)[p∞]∨{\rm Sel}_{E}(K_\infty)[p^\infty]^{\lor} is a finitely generated torsion Λ\Lambda-module.

This is the basic torsionness assertion in the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves. The supplied source does not state whether it is known or open in this generality.

References

Primary source

Rikuto Ito and Sohei Tateno, “Iwasawa Theory for K3 Surfaces over Finite Fields”, arXiv:2606.25737 (2026).

Additional references

11 papers in this index state this conjecture (1999–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2412.20078, arXiv:2405.00270, arXiv:2405.20963, arXiv:2312.09301, arXiv:2303.04373, arXiv:2008.04960, arXiv:1909.01434, arXiv:0705.2608, arXiv:math/0404297, arXiv:math/9907215.

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