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A Positive Proportion of Elliptic Curves Over Q Have Rank One


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We prove that, when all elliptic curves over Q are ordered by naive height, a positive proportion have both algebraic and analytic rank one. It follows that the average rank and the average analytic rank of elliptic curves are both strictly positive.
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Manjul Bhargava
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544, United States
Christopher Skinner
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544, United States

Abstract


We prove that, when all elliptic curves over Q are ordered by naive height, a positive proportion have both algebraic and analytic rank one. It follows that the average rank and the average analytic rank of elliptic curves are both strictly positive.