Resumen de Distribution of Selmer groups of quadratic twists of a family of elliptic curves

Maosheng Xiong, Alexandru Zaharescu

• We study the distribution of the size of the Selmer groups arising from a 2-isogeny and its dual 2-isogeny for quadratic twists of elliptic curves with full 2-torsion points in . We show that one of these Selmer groups is almost always bounded, while the 2-rank of the other follows a Gaussian distribution. This provides us with a small Tate�Shafarevich group and a large Tate�Shafarevich group. When combined with a result obtained by Yu [G. Yu, On the quadratic twists of a family of elliptic curves, Mathematika 52 (1�2) (2005) 139�154 (2006)], this shows that the mean value of the 2-rank of the large Tate�Shafarevich group for square-free positive integers n less than X is , as X?8.