# Analogue of the original Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian varieties


Originally, the conjecture for an elliptic curve $E$ over $\Q$ was $$\exists C>0,\quad \prod_{p \leq x} \dfrac{|E(\F_p)|}{p} \sim C \;\mathrm{log}(x)^r \qquad (x \to \infty).$$

My question is to know what is the analogue of the original conjecture, in the framework of abelian varieties over number fields.

My first guess would to replace to LHS by $$\prod_{N(\p) \leq x} L_{\p}(A_{/F}, N(\p)^{-1}),$$ where $L_{\p}(A_{/F},s)$ is the local factor of the L-function of $A$ at $\p$. But I'm not sure what the RHS should be. Typically, how does it depend on the dimension of $A$ or on the degree of the number field?

$$\newcommand{\p}{\mathfrak{p}}$$By Theorem 6.3 of this paper by Keith Conrad, strong conjectures about $$L(A,s)$$ (stronger than GRH for this $$L$$-function, but still "believable"), imply that
$$\prod_{N\p\le x}L_{\p}(A,N\p^{-1}) \sim C (\log x)^r$$ where $$r$$ is the order of vanishing at $$s=1$$, which by the usual BSD should be the rank of $$A(K)$$.
• Moreover, do you know whether the constant $C$ depend on $A$ (in particular of $\mathrm{dim}(A)$)? – Watson Sep 4 '18 at 11:44
• @Watson Konrad's paper also relates $C$ to the leading term, at $s=1$: this is Theorem 5.11. For the BSD formula for the leading term, see this question – Aurel Sep 4 '18 at 11:47
• @Watson I want to point out that the mismatch between the coefficient in the (plausible but unproved!) asymptotic estimate for partial Euler products at the normalized central point $s=1/2$ and the leading Taylor coefficient of the $L$-function at that point is already appearing in the case of Hecke $L$-functions $s=1/2$: see Corollary 5.5 and Corollary 5.6. See Example 5.8 for some data in the case of one Dirichlet $L$-function. – KConrad Sep 4 '18 at 13:23