A Positive-Rank Elliptic Curve with No Dense Prime
Manuscript 1 September 2026 · Online 2 September 2026
Abstract
An AIM problem asks whether every positive-rank elliptic curve over \(\mathbb Q\) has a prime \(p\) for which its rational points are dense in its \(p\) -adic points. We give a negative answer. For \[ E:y^2=x^3-1516563, \qquad P=(6403/9,511280/27), \] an unconditional full \(2\) -descent and saturation certify \(E(\mathbb Q)=\mathbb ZP\) . A rational \(3\) -isogeny places the reduction of every rational point in a subgroup of index \(3\) at every good prime, while separate exact arguments exclude density at the three bad primes \(2,3,79\) . Thus the dense-prime set is empty. We also record an exact finite local criterion: density is equivalent to surjectivity on a fixed finite quotient of the Néron filtration, and at a good odd prime on \(\mathcal E(\mathbb Z/p^2\mathbb Z)\) .
Record
- Affiliation
- Mercury Software GmbH
- Contact
- [email protected] · GitHub
- Result
- Complete counterexample
- Categories
- math.NT
- Manuscript
- 1 September 2026
- Online release
- 2 September 2026
- Version
- 1.0 (typesetting revision 2026-09-05)
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Citation
Alper Ferudun, “A Positive-Rank Elliptic Curve with No Dense Prime,” EulerSolve Research Papers, AIM-ALGEBRAIC_NUMBER_THEORY-0109, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22245533.
BibTeX
@misc{Ferudun2026AimAlgebraicNumberTheory0109,
author = {Ferudun, Alper},
title = {A Positive-Rank Elliptic Curve with No Dense Prime},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {EulerSolve Research Papers},
url = {https://eulersolve.org/papers/aim-algebraic-number-theory-0109/},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22245533},
note = {AIM-ALGEBRAIC_NUMBER_THEORY-0109; unrefereed preprint}
}