Dear Prof.Cremona

Thnak you very mach

I attached my curves that I can not compute their ranks

Best Regards
Raman


On 7/28/11, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 9:32 am, raman kurdi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Dears
>> I have a family of elliptic curve that the number of this family is
>> 200000.
>> I want to compute the rank of this family and use the MWRANK program.
>> The option that I use is : -q -p 500 -v 0
>> Unfortunately, for 60% of my curves MWRANK does not give an exact answer.
>> Could you please tell me is the above option correct?
>> Best
>> Raman
>
> Dear Raman,
>
> mwrank implements a method which cannot, even in
> principle,successfully compute the ranks of all elliptic curves over
> Q.
>
> Setting the flag -p500 (precision 500 decimals) is a good idea for
> curves with 2-torsion since it helps the reduction stage of a second
> descent.  Another thing to set is -b (e.g. -b14) which controls how
> far to search for points on the homogeneous spaces -- but be warned
> (1) the maximum allowed is about 20, and (2) it's a logarithmic bound
> and increasing it by 1 is likely to increase the running time by
> exp(3/2).
>
> In any case the remark I made first is serious:  if your curves have
> nontrivial Sha[2] and no 2-torsion then the method of 2-descent will
> find homogeneous spaces which have no rational points, but will be
> unable to prove that they have none.  (That requires 4-descent which I
> only even implemented in Magma -- sorry!).
>
> Feel free to post a few of the curves which you difficulty with and
> I'll see if I can help.
>
> John Cremona (author of mwrank)
>
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