Szpiro's conjecture

In number theory, Szpiro's conjecture concerns a relationship between the conductor and the discriminant of an elliptic curve. In a general form, it is equivalent to the well-known abc conjecture. It is named for Lucien Szpiro who formulated it in the 1980s.

The conjecture states that: given ε > 0, there exists a constant C(ε) such that for any elliptic curve E defined over Q with minimal discriminant Δ and conductor f, we have

$\vert \Delta \vert \leq C(\varepsilon )\cdot f^{6+\varepsilon }.\,$

The modified Szpiro conjecture states that: given ε > 0, there exists a constant C(ε) such that for any elliptic curve E defined over Q with invariants c₄, c₆ and conductor f (see Tate's algorithm#Notation), we have

$\max\{\vert c_{4}\vert ^{3},\vert c_{6}\vert ^{2}\}\leq C(\varepsilon )\cdot f^{6+\varepsilon }.\,$

References

• Lang, S. (1997), Survey of Diophantine geometry, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 51, ISBN 3-540-61223-8, Zbl 0869.11051
• Szpiro, L. (1981), "Seminaire sur les pinceaux des courbes de genre au moins deux", Astérisque, 86 (3): 44–78, Zbl 0463.00009
• Szpiro, L. (1987), "Présentation de la théorie d'Arakelov", Contemp. Math., 67: 279–293, Zbl 0634.14012