Iwasawa theory and mock plectic points

Abstract

We use Iwasawa theory, at a prime $p$ inert in a quadratic imaginary field $K$, to study the arithmetic properties of mock plectic invariants for elliptic curves of rank two. More precisely, under some minor technical assumptions, we prove that the non-vanishing of the mock plectic invariant ${\mathcal{Q}}_K$ attached to an elliptic curve $E_{/\mathbb{Q}}$ of even analytic rank $r_{\mathrm{an}}(E/K)\ge 2$, and with multiplicative reduction at $p$, implies that the $p$-Selmer rank $r_p(E/K)$ equals $2$. The proof rests on one inclusion of Perrin-Riou's Heegner point main conjecture for elliptic curves with multiplicative reduction at $p$ which we obtain using bipartite Euler systems.

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