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Sato–Tate conjecture

Field	Arithmetic geometry
Conjectured by	Mikio Sato John Tate
Conjectured in	c.?1960
First proof by	Laurent Clozel Thomas Barnet-Lamb David Geraghty Michael Harris Nicholas Shepherd-Barron Richard Taylor
First proof in	2011

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In mathematics, the Sato–Tate conjecture is a statistical statement about the family of elliptic curves E_p obtained from an elliptic curve E over the rational numbers by reduction modulo almost all prime numbers p. Mikio Sato and John Tate independently posed the conjecture around 1960.

If N_p denotes the number of points on the elliptic curve E_p defined over the finite field with p elements, the conjecture gives an answer to the distribution of the second-order term for N_p. By Hasse's theorem on elliptic curves,

$N_{p}/p=1+\mathrm {O} (1/\!{\sqrt {p}})\$

as $p\to \infty$, and the point of the conjecture is to predict how the O-term varies.

The original conjecture and its generalization to all totally real fields was proved by Laurent Clozel, Michael Harris, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, and Richard Taylor under mild assumptions in 2008, and completed by Thomas Barnet-Lamb, David Geraghty, Harris, and Taylor in 2011. Several generalizations to other algebraic varieties and fields are open.

Statement

Let E be an elliptic curve defined over the rational numbers without complex multiplication. For a prime number p, define θ_p as the solution to the equation

$p+1-N_{p}=2{\sqrt {p}}\cos \theta _{p}~~(0\leq \theta _{p}\leq \pi ).$

Then, for every two real numbers $\alpha$ and $\beta$ for which $0\leq \alpha <\beta \leq \pi ,$

$\lim _{N\to \infty }{\frac {\#\{p\leq N:\alpha \leq \theta _{p}\leq \beta \}}{\#\{p\leq N\}}}={\frac {2}{\pi }}\int _{\alpha }^{\beta }\sin ^{2}\theta \,d\theta ={\frac {1}{\pi }}\left(\beta -\alpha +\sin(\alpha )\cos(\alpha )-\sin(\beta )\cos(\beta )\right)$

Details

By Hasse's theorem on elliptic curves, the ratio

${\frac {(p+1)-N_{p}}{2{\sqrt {p}}}}={\frac {a_{p}}{2{\sqrt {p}}}}$

is between -1 and 1. Thus it can be expressed as cos θ for an angle θ; in geometric terms there are two eigenvalues accounting for the remainder and with the denominator as given they are complex conjugate and of absolute value 1. The Sato–Tate conjecture, when E doesn't have complex multiplication, states that the probability measure of θ is proportional to

$\sin ^{2}\theta \,d\theta .$

This is due to Mikio Sato and John Tate (independently, and around 1960, published somewhat later).

Proof

In 2008, Clozel, Harris, Shepherd-Barron, and Taylor published a proof of the Sato–Tate conjecture for elliptic curves over totally real fields satisfying a certain condition: of having multiplicative reduction at some prime, in a series of three joint papers.

Further results are conditional on improved forms of the Arthur–Selberg trace formula. Harris has a conditional proof of a result for the product of two elliptic curves (not isogenous) following from such a hypothetical trace formula. In 2011, Barnet-Lamb, Geraghty, Harris, and Taylor proved a generalized version of the Sato–Tate conjecture for an arbitrary non-CM holomorphic modular form of weight greater than or equal to two, by improving the potential modularity results of previous papers. The prior issues involved with the trace formula were solved by Michael Harris, and Sug Woo Shin.

In 2015, Richard Taylor was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for numerous breakthrough results in (...) the Sato–Tate conjecture."

Generalisations

There are generalisations, involving the distribution of Frobenius elements in Galois groups involved in the Galois representations on étale cohomology. In particular there is a conjectural theory for curves of genus n > 1.

Under the random matrix model developed by Nick Katz and Peter Sarnak, there is a conjectural correspondence between (unitarized) characteristic polynomials of Frobenius elements and conjugacy classes in the compact Lie group USp(2n) = Sp(n). The Haar measure on USp(2n) then gives the conjectured distribution, and the classical case is USp(2) = SU(2).

Refinements

There are also more refined statements. The Lang–Trotter conjecture (1976) of Serge Lang and Hale Trotter states the asymptotic number of primes p with a given value of a_p, the trace of Frobenius that appears in the formula. For the typical case (no complex multiplication, trace ≠ 0) their formula states that the number of p up to X is asymptotically

$c{\sqrt {X}}/\log X\$

with a specified constant c. Neal Koblitz (1988) provided detailed conjectures for the case of a prime number q of points on E_p, motivated by elliptic curve cryptography. In 1999, Chantal David and Francesco Pappalardi proved an averaged version of the Lang–Trotter conjecture.

See also

• Wigner semicircle distribution

External links

• Report on Barry Mazur giving context Archived 2025-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Michael Harris notes, with statement (PDF)
• La Conjecture de Sato–Tate [d'après Clozel, Harris, Shepherd-Barron, Taylor], Bourbaki seminar June 2007 by Henri Carayol (PDF)
• Video introducing Elliptic curves and its relation to Sato-Tate conjecture, Imperial College London, 2014 (Last 15 minutes)