Quadratic Twists of Elliptic Curves with Small Selmer Rank

Abstract

Given an elliptic curve E over the rational with no rational 2-torsion points, we prove the existence of a quadratic twist of E for which the 2-Selmer rank is less than or equal to 1. By the author's earlier result, we establish a lower bound on the number of D's for which the twists E(D) have 2-Selmer rank <= 1. We include in the introduction our (brief) opinion about why it is supposed to be hard to push our technique to make the Selmer group trivial.

cited the work of Mazur and Rubin [arxiv:0904.3709]; accepted by Acta Arithmetica