Average analytic ranks of elliptic curves over number fields

Tristan Phillips

Published 2022-05-19Version 1

We give a conditional bound for the average analytic rank of elliptic curves over an arbitrary number field. In particular, under the assumptions that all elliptic curves over a number field $K$ are modular and have $L$-functions which satisfy the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, we show that the average analytic rank of isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over $K$ is bounded above by $3\text{deg}(K)+1/2$. A key ingredient in the proof of this result is to give asymptotics for the number of elliptic curves over an arbitrary number field with a prescribed local condition; these results will follow from general results for counting points of bounded height on weighted projective spaces with a prescribed local condition.