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Algebra Seminar

Monday, November 12, 2018 - 3:15pm

Alina Bucur

IAS/UCSD

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Based on the Lagarias-Odlyzko effectivization of the Chebotarev density theorem, Kumar Murty gave an effective version of the Sato-Tate conjecture for an elliptic curve conditional on the analytic continuation and the Riemann hypothesis for all the symmetric power L-functions. Using a stronger version of Chebotarev from the same Lagarias-Odlyzko paper, Kedlaya and I obtained a similar conditional effectivization of the generalized Sato-Tate conjecture for an arbitrary motive.

As an application, we obtained a conditional upper bound of the form O((logN)^2(loglogN)^2) for the smallest prime at which two given rational elliptic curves with conductor at most N have Frobenius traces of opposite sign.

In this talk, I will discuss how to improve this bound to the best possible in terms of N and under slightly weaker assumptions. Our new approach extends to abelian varieties.

This is joint work with Kiran Kedlaya and Francesc Fite.