Infinitely many failures of the cyclotomic unit condition

Determine whether, for a rank-two CM elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}$ with $L(E,1)=0$ and root number $+1$, the set of split primes of good reduction outside $S_E$ at which the normalized second Taylor coefficient $\tilde c_2(p)$ is not a $p$-adic unit is infinite.

Background

For the CM rank-two curves studied in the paper, the unit condition c~2(p)Zp×\tilde c_2(p)\in\mathbb{Z}_p^\times is equivalent, outside the excluded set, to the cyclotomic p-adic regulator being a unit together with triviality of the p-primary Shafarevich–Tate group.

Computations for five curves found only three failures among the relevant split primes below 30,000. The paper compares this with a random-residue heuristic predicting a very sparse but potentially infinite set of failures.

References

Is the set of split primes at which the unit condition fails an infinite set?

Second derivatives of $p$-adic $L$-functions and the Shafarevich--Tate group of rank-two CM elliptic curves  (2609.08431 - Banwait, 8 Sep 2026) in Question 1 (label q:infinite), Section 1 subsection “The questions”; repeated in Section “Questions”