The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[4]{5})$

Raymond van Bommel

Published 2018-05-15Version 1

In this paper we show the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a certain elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[4]{5})$ is equivalent to the same conjecture for a certain pair of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 over $\mathbb{Q}$. We numerically verify the conjecture for these hyperelliptic curves. Moreover, we explain the methods used to find this example, which turned out to be a bit more subtle than expected.