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most citedThe distribution of multiples of real points on an elliptic curve

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math.NT2025

The relative entropy of primes in arithmetic progressions is really small

Alex Cowan

Fix a modulus . One would expect the number of primes in each invertible residue class mod to be multinomially distributed, i.e. for each to behave li…

math.NT2025

On the mean value of and -functions, with applications to murmurations

Alex Cowan

"Murmurations" are a recently-discovered type of fine structure in sums of Dirichlet coefficients averaged over families of -functions. The root cause of this phenomenon remains…

math.NT2024

Murmurations and ratios conjectures

Alex Cowan

We introduce a new method for studying murmurations, based on random matrix theory. With this method, we exhibit murmurations or similar phenomena: assuming ratios conjectures, for…

math.NT2024

Conductor distributions of elliptic curves

Alex Cowan

We determine the distribution of the conductors of rational elliptic curves when ordered by naive height , in the form of an explicit density function for the ratios .…

math.NT2023★ 1 cited

Murmurations and explicit formulas

Alex Cowan

Unexpected oscillations in values in a family of elliptic curves were observed experimentally by He, Lee, Oliver, and Pozdnyakov. We propose a heuristic explanation for these…

math.NT2023

A twisted additive divisor problem

Alex Cowan

We give asymptotics for shifted convolutions of the form for nonzero complex numbers and nontrivial Dirichlet charac…

math.NT2023

Counting modular forms by rationality field

Alex Cowan, Kimball Martin

We investigate the distribution of degrees and rationality fields of weight 2 newforms. In particular, we give heuristic upper bounds on how often degree rationality fields occ…

math.NT2022★ 1 cited

Moduli for rational genus 2 curves with real multiplication for discriminant 5

Alex Cowan, Kimball Martin

Principally polarized abelian surfaces with prescribed real multiplication (RM) are parametrized by certain Hilbert modular surfaces. Thus rational genus 2 curves correspond to rat…

math.NT2020

Computing newforms using supersingular isogeny graphs

Alex Cowan

We describe an algorithm that we used to compute the q-expansions of all weight 2 cusp forms of prime level at most 2,000,000 and dimension at most 6. We also present an algorithm…

math.NT2020

Conjecture: 100% of elliptic surfaces over have rank zero

Alex Cowan

Based on an equation for the rank of an elliptic surface over which appears in the work of Nagao, Rosen, and Silverman, we conjecture that 100% of elliptic surfaces ha…

math.NT2019

Non-Random Behaviour in Sums of Modular Symbols

Alexander Cowan

We give explicit expressions for the Fourier coefficients of Eisenstein series twisted by Dirichlet characters and modular symbols on in the case where is prime and eq…

math.NT2019★ 1 cited

The distribution of multiples of real points on an elliptic curve

Alex Cowan

Given an elliptic curve and a point in , we investigate the distribution of the points as varies over the integers, giving bounds on the and …

math.NT2017

Constants in Titchmarsh divisor problems for elliptic curves

Renee Bell, Clifford Blakestad, Alina Carmen Cojocaru +5

Inspired by the analogy between the group of units of the finite field with elements and the group of points of an elliptic curve $E/\…