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arxiv: 1410.7212 · v1 · pith:C26UXSVMnew · submitted 2014-10-27 · 🧮 math.NT

The average of the first invariant factor for reductions of CM elliptic curves mod p

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Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be a fixed elliptic curve. For each prime $p$ of good reduction, write $E(\mathbb{F}_p) \cong \mathbb{Z}/d_p \mathbb{Z} \oplus \mathbb{Z}/e_p \mathbb{Z}$, where $d_p \mid e_p$. Kowalski proposed investigating the average value of $d_p$ as $p$ runs over the rational primes. For CM curves, he showed that $x\log\log{x}/\log{x} \ll \sum_{p \le x} d_p \ll x\sqrt{\log{x}}$. It was shown recently by Felix and Murty that in fact $\sum_{p \le x} d_p$ exceeds any constant multiple of $x\log\log{x}/\log{x}$, once $x$ is sufficiently large. In the opposite direction, Kim has shown that the expression $x\sqrt{\log{x}}$ in the upper bound can be replaced by $x\log\log{x}$. In this paper, we obtain the correct order of magnitude for the sum: $\sum_{p \le x} d_p \asymp x$ for all large $x$.

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