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To prove the BSD conjecture, one has to know about 'the finiteness of the Shafarevich Tate group'. But, an example of an elliptic curve of rank 2 (whose Sha group $Ш(E/\mathbb{Q})$ is finite) is not yet known.

Is there any example of an elliptic curve of rank 2 such that $p$-primary components of Ш are trivial for $p$ outside a finite set of primes?. In particular, $Ш(E/\mathbb{Q})[p]$ is trivial for $p$ $\neq$ 2, 3, 5, 7.

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No, there are no such examples known. In fact, with the current technology, the two questions are more or less equally hard. That's because for any given prime $p$, you can, in principle, establish finiteness of $Ш(E/\mathbb{Q})[p^\infty]$ algorithmically by performing $p^n$-descent for higher and higher $n$, until the upper bound on the rank of $Ш(E/\mathbb{Q})[p^n]$ stabilises. Of course, we cannot prove a priori that this would ever happen, but in practice, if you knew finiteness of $p$-primary parts of sha outside a finite set of primes, you would run your computer to do $p^n$-descent for the remaining primes, until you establish finiteness for this finite set, too.

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  • $\begingroup$ Dear Alex, Thanks for your comment. $\endgroup$
    – Srilakshmi
    May 1, 2012 at 13:59

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