Publication

2004-08-26 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

129,250 words, Guess

Page Count

517 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004107464
  • Goodreads1394945

Classifications

  • LCCQA3 .L28 no. 1849

Description

Heegner points on both modular curves and elliptic curves over global fields of any characteristic form the topic of this research monograph. The Heegner module of an elliptic curve is an original concept introduced in this text. The computation of the cohomology of the Heegner module is the main technical result and is applied to prove the Tate conjecture for a class of elliptic surfaces over finite fields; this conjecture is equivalent to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for the corresponding elliptic curves over global fields.

First Sentence

The points of departure of this text are twofold: first the proof by Drinfeld in 1974 ([Drl], see also Appendix B) of an important case of the Langlands conjecture for GL2 over a global field of positive characteristic and second the proof by Kolyvagin [K] in 1989 of the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a class of Weil elliptic curves over the rational field Q.

Subjects

Topics

CurvesMathematicsNumber TheoryNumber theoryHeegner PointsHomology theoryElliptic Curves

Other Editions

  • Heegner Modules and Elliptic CurvesPaperbackSpringer2004-08-26

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