A Note on the Growth of Sha in Dihedral Extensions

Abstract

We provide a formula for the order of the Tate--Shafarevich group of elliptic curves over dihedral extensions of number fields of order $2n$, up to $4^{th}$ powers and primes dividing $n$. Specifically, for odd $n$ it is equal to the order of the Tate--Shafarevich group over the quadratic subextension. A similar formula holds for even $n$.