The second moment of the size of the 2-Selmer group of elliptic curves
Abstract
In this paper, we prove that when elliptic curves over Q are ordered by height, the second moment of the size of the 2-Selmer group is at most 15. This confirms a conjecture of Poonen and Rains.
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