On derivatives of Kato's Euler system and the Mazur-Tate Conjecture

Abstract

We provide a new interpretation of the Mazur-Tate Conjecture and then use it to obtain the first (unconditional) theoretical evidence in support of the conjecture for elliptic curves of strictly positive rank.

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References in corpus (1)

• On the theory of higher rank Euler, Kolyvagin and Stark systems, III: applications