Trilinear Height and the AGGP Framework: A Formal Connection to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture in Rank 3
This document presents a study on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture for elliptic curves of rank 3. We define the trilinear height H_3(E) as the determinant of the Néron-Tate height pairing matrix of the generators of the Mordell-Weil group. We numerically verify the complete BSD formula for 50 rank-3 elliptic curves with conductor between 5,077 and 32,276, selected by direct enumeration from the Cremona database via forell. In all 50 curves, the equality L'''(E,1)/6 = Ω(E)·Reg(E)·∏c_p(E)/|E(Q)_tors|^2 holds with |Ш(E)|=1, with a maximum precision of ~9.5×10^-35. We connect this result conceptually with the Beilinson-Bloch-Kato (BBK) framework, which generalizes BSD and incorporates the regulator. We also show formally that the K-theoretic route (K_2(E), K_4(E)) cannot work for rank ≥ 2, by an argument based on invariance under quadratic twist. The connection with F-theory and the Deligne period remains speculative and is not established.
Authors
- Alvaro Alejandro Martinez Casallas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1705-4092)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22685805
- Primary Topic
- Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
- Type
- preprint