info prev up next book cdrom email home

Coates-Wiles Theorem

In 1976, Coates and Wiles showed that Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication having an infinite number of solutions have $L$-functions which are zero at the relevant fixed point. This is a special case of the Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.


References

Cipra, B. ``Fermat Prover Points to Next Challenges.'' Science 271, 1668-1669, 1996.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26