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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/elliptic-curve-murmurations-found-with-ai-take-flight-20240305\/#comments<\/a><\/br> Almost immediately, the preprint garnered interest, particularly from Andrew Sutherland<\/a>, a research scientist at MIT who is one of the managing editors of the LMFDB. Sutherland realized that 3 million elliptic curves weren\u2019t enough for his purposes. He wanted to look at much larger conductor ranges to see how robust the murmurations were. He pulled data from another immense repository of about 150 million elliptic curves. Still unsatisfied, he then pulled in data from a different repository with 300 million curves.<\/p>\n \u201cBut even those weren\u2019t enough, so I actually computed a new data set of over a billion elliptic curves, and that\u2019s what I used to compute the really high-res pictures,\u201d Sutherland said. The murmurations showed up whether he averaged over 15,000 elliptic curves at a time or a million at a time. The shape stayed the same even as he looked at the curves over larger and larger prime numbers, a phenomenon called scale invariance. Sutherland also realized that murmurations are not unique to elliptic curves, but also appear in more general L<\/em>-functions. He wrote a letter summarizing his findings<\/a> and sent it to Sarnak and Michael Rubinstein<\/a> at the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there is a known explanation for it I expect you will know it,\u201d Sutherland wrote.<\/p>\n They didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Lee, He and Oliver organized a workshop on murmurations in August 2023 at Brown University\u2019s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM). Sarnak and Rubinstein came, as did Sarnak\u2019s student Nina Zubrilina<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zubrilina presented her research into murmuration patterns in modular forms<\/a>, special complex functions which, like elliptic curves, have associated L<\/em>-functions. In modular forms with large conductors, the murmurations converge into a sharply defined curve, rather than forming a discernible but dispersed pattern. In a paper<\/a> posted on October 11, 2023, Zubrilina proved that this type of murmuration follows an explicit formula she discovered.<\/p>\n \u201cNina\u2019s big achievement is that she\u2019s given a formula for this; I call it the Zubrilina murmuration density formula,\u201d Sarnak said. \u201cUsing very sophisticated math, she has proven an exact formula which fits the data perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n Her formula is complicated, but Sarnak hails it as an important new kind of function, comparable to the Airy functions that define solutions to differential equations used in a variety of contexts in physics, ranging from optics to quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n Though Zubrilina\u2019s formula was the first, others have followed. \u201cEvery week now, there\u2019s a new paper out,\u201d Sarnak said, \u201cmainly using Zubrilina\u2019s tools, explaining other aspects of murmurations.\u201d<\/p>\n Jonathan Bober<\/a>, Andrew Booker<\/a> and Min Lee<\/a> of the University of Bristol, together with David Lowry-Duda<\/a> of ICERM, proved the existence of a different type of murmuration in modular forms in another October paper<\/a>. And Kyu-Hwan Lee, Oliver and Pozdnyakov proved the existence<\/a> of murmurations in objects called Dirichlet characters that are closely related to L<\/em>-functions.<\/p>\n Sutherland was impressed by the significant dose of luck that had led to the discovery of murmurations. If the elliptic curve data hadn\u2019t been ordered by conductor, the murmurations would have disappeared. \u201cThey were fortunate to be taking data from the LMFDB, which came pre-sorted according to the conductor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s what relates an elliptic curve to the corresponding modular form, but that\u2019s not at all obvious. \u2026 Two curves whose equations look very similar can have very different conductors.\u201d For example, Sutherland noted that y<\/em>2 <\/sup>= x<\/em>3 <\/sup>\u2013 11x <\/em>+ 6 has conductor 17, but flipping the minus sign to a plus sign, y<\/em>2 <\/sup>= x<\/em>3<\/sup>\u00a0+ 11x <\/em>+ 6 has conductor 100,736.<\/p>\n Even then, the murmurations were only found because of Pozdnyakov\u2019s inexperience. \u201cI don\u2019t think we would have found it without him,\u201d Oliver said, \u201cbecause the experts traditionally normalize ap<\/sub><\/em> to have absolute value 1. But he didn\u2019t normalize them \u2026 so the oscillations were very big and visible.\u201d<\/p>\n The statistical patterns that AI algorithms use to sort elliptic curves by rank exist in a parameter space with hundreds of dimensions \u2014 too many for people to sort through in their minds, let alone visualize, Oliver noted. But though machine learning found the hidden oscillations, \u201conly later did we understand them to be the murmurations.\u201d<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Note: Andrew Sutherland, Kyu-Hwan Lee and the L-functions and modular forms database (LMFDB) have all received funding from the Simons Foundation, which also funds this editorially independent publication. Simons Foundation funding decisions have no influence on our coverage. More information is available here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
\nElliptic Curve \u2018Murmurations\u2019 Found With AI Take Flight<\/br>
\n2024-03-06 21:59:13<\/br><\/p>\nExplaining the Pattern<\/strong><\/h2>\n