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What heuristic evidence is there to support the folklore conjecture that concerning the unboundedness or boundedness of Mordell-Weil ranks of elliptic curves over $\Bbb Q$can grow without bound?Many Some experts have a hunch that for any nonnegative integer $r$ there are infinitely many elliptic curves over $\Bbb Q$ with Mordell-Weil rank at least $r$. The best empirical evidence for this hunch can be found in Andrej Dujella's tables here and here, the strongest of this evidence being provided by Elkies using constructions involving K3 surfaces. The only heuristic evidence I know of supporting this hunch is the results of Tate and Shafarevich (strengthened by Ulmer) that the Mordell-Weil ranks of elliptic curves over the a fixed function field $\Bbb F_q(t)$ can be arbitrarily large.
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What heuristic evidence is there to support the folklore conjecture that the Mordell-Weil ranks of elliptic curves over $\Bbb Q$ can grow without bound.? |
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