Second derivatives of -adic -functions and the Shafarevich--Tate group of rank-two CM elliptic curves
Abstract: For an elliptic curve of rank two with complex multiplication, Coates, Liang and Sujatha gave a criterion for the vanishing of at a good ordinary prime and applied it to five such curves for $p < 30{,}000$. We prove a cyclotomic criterion of the same kind: outside an explicit set of primes, the normalised second Taylor coefficient of the Mazur-Tate-Teitelbaum -adic -function at the central point is a -adic unit if and only if the cyclotomic -adic regulator is a unit and , and, by the theory of Bannai and Kobayashi, if and only if an explicit combination of three critical Hecke -values of weight $2p - 1$ has valuation exactly two. Following the algorithm of Stein and Wuthrich, we compute the regulator for the same five curves at every good ordinary prime below : it is a unit at all but three of the primes outside the excluded set. The one case that the criterion of Coates, Liang and Sujatha left open, for , is settled by the new criterion. A Lean 4 formalisation of the first equivalence, assuming stated results from the literature, is provided.
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