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Average Frobenius distribution for elliptic curves defined over finite Galois extensions of the rationals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

KEVIN JAMES  and
ETHAN SMITH
KEVIN JAMES
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Box 340975 Clemson, SC 29634-097, U.S.A. e-mail: kevja@clemson.edu URL: www.math.clemson.edu/~kevja
ETHAN SMITH
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, U.S.A. e-mail: ethans@mtu.edu URL: www.math.mtu.edu/~ethans
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Abstract

Let K be a fixed number field, assumed to be Galois over ℚ. Let r and f be fixed integers with f positive. Given an elliptic curve E, defined over K, we consider the problem of counting the number of degree f prime ideals of K with trace of Frobenius equal to r. Except in the case f = 2, we show that ‘on average,’ the number of such prime ideals with norm less than or equal to x satisfies an asymptotic identity that is in accordance with standard heuristics. This work is related to the classical Lang–Trotter conjecture and extends the work of several authors.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 150 , Issue 3 , May 2011 , pp. 439 - 458
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2011

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