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Event Information An application of Selberg's sieve to elliptic curves
14:10 on Thursday September 26, 2019
15:30 on Thursday September 26, 2019
Stewart Library, Fields Institute, 222 College St.
Jyothsnaa Sivaraman

University of Toronto

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over the rationals. Koblitz conjectured that the number of primes $p \le x $ for which $|E(\mathbb{F}_p)|$ is prime, is asymptotic to $$C_E \frac{x}{\log^2(x)},$$ for some constant $C_E$. In this talk, we will try to discuss a result of S. Ali Miri and V. Kumar Murty which addresses the above conjecture. The result states that we considers elliptic curves with complex multiplication and assume the Riemann hypothesis for all Dedekind zeta functions, then it can be shown that

$$ |\{p \le x : \nu (|E(\mathbb{F}_p)|) \le 16\}| \ll \frac{x}{\log^2 x}. $$ Here $\nu(n)$ is used to denote the number of distinct prime divisors of $n$.