Heegner Modules And Elliptic Curves

Download or read book Heegner Modules and Elliptic Curves written by Martin L. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heegner points on both modular curves and elliptic curves over global fields of any characteristic form the topic of this research monograph. The Heegner module of an elliptic curve is an original concept introduced in this text. The computation of the cohomology of the Heegner module is the main technical result and is applied to prove the Tate conjecture for a class of elliptic surfaces over finite fields, this conjecture is equivalent to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for the corresponding elliptic curves over global fields.