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An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30

27 pointsby robinhoustontoday at 2:14 PM10 commentsview on HN

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dwrenshatoday at 2:55 PM

I'm the maintainer of the linked website.

This morning, a mysterious user named "ranksunbounded" submitted the linked curve, which has rank at least thirty. This breaks the previous record of 29 found by Elkies and Klagsbrun in 2024.

Nobody knows whether it is possible to achieve arbitrarily high ranks.

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zenburnmyfacetoday at 2:48 PM

Want to understand this more? Read the triplet of books by Ash and Gross, specially Elliptical Tales

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great_psytoday at 3:00 PM

Can we have a tldr of the implications of this for the uninitiated?

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