A positive proportion of elliptic curves over Q have rank one

Abstract

We prove that, when all elliptic curves over Q are ordered by naive height, a positive proportion have both algebraic and analytic rank one. It follows that the average rank and the average analytic rank of elliptic curves are both strictly positive.

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