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The Density

The following conjecture is not mentioned elsewhere in this paper.

Conjecture 4.2   Let $ p$ be a rigid prime for an elliptic curve $ E$. The set of primes

$\displaystyle \left\{\ell   :   \ell \equiv 1\!\!\!\!\!\pmod{p}\text{ and }
L(E,\chi_{p,\ell},1)=0\right\}
$

has Dirichlet density 0.

The following numerical example gives evidence for this conjecture.

Example 4.3   Let $ E$ be 37A and let $ p=5$. Then the only $ \ell<1000$ (with $ \ell\equiv 1\pmod{5}$) for which $ L(E,\chi_{5,\ell},1)=0$ is $ \ell=41$.



William A Stein 2002-02-27