Arul Shankar
I am a professor of Mathematics at
the University of
Toronto. My research is in Number Theory. You can contact me at
"arul dot shnkr at gmail dot com".
Publications
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- Central values of zeta functions of non-Galois cubic fields
- with A. Södergren and N. Templier. Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (2026).
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- Geometry of numbers methods in the cusp with applications to class groups
- with A. Siad, A. A. Swaminathan, and I. Varma. Published in Algebra & Number Theory 19 (2025).
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- Squarefree values of polynomial discriminants II
- with M. Bhargava and X. Wang. Published in Forum of Mathematics, Pi (2025).
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- Counting integral points on symmetric varieties with applications to arithmetic statistics
- with A. Siad and A. A. Swaminathan. Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (2025).
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- Secondary terms in the first moment of |Sel2(E)|
- with T. Taniguchi. Published in Cambridge Journal of Mathematics (2025).
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- The mean number of 2-torsion elements in the class groups of n-monogenized cubic fields
- with M. Bhargava and J. Hanke. Accepted in American Journal of Mathematics.
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- Malle's Conjecture for Galois octic fields over ℚ
- with I. Varma. Accepted in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle).
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- Asymptotics for the number of cubic fields ordered by general invariants
- with F. Thorne. Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (2024).
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- An improvement on Schmidt's bound on the number of number fields of bounded discriminant and small degree
- with M. Bhargava and X. Wang. Published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (2022).
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- Squarefree values of polynomial discriminants I
- with M. Bhargava and X. Wang. Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (2022).
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- Heuristics for the asymptotics of the number of Sn-number fields
- with J. Tsimerman. Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2022).
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- Exceptional jumps of Picard ranks of reductions of K3 surfaces over number fields
- with A. N. Shankar, Y. Tang, and S. Tayou. Published in Forum of Mathematics, Pi (2021).
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- Large families of elliptic curves ordered by conductor
- with A. N. Shankar and X. Wang. Published in Compositio Mathematica (2020).
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- Bounds on 2-torsion in class groups of number fields and integral points on elliptic curves
- with M. Bhargava, T. Taniguchi, F. Thorne, J. Tsimerman, and Y. Zhao. Published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society (2020).
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- The number of quartic D4-fields ordered by conductor
- with A. Altug, K. Wilson, and I. Varma. Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (2019).
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- Odd degree number fields with odd class number
- with W. Ho and I. Varma. Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (2018).
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- Rational points on hyperelliptic curves having a marked non-Weierstrass point
- with X. Wang. Published in Compositio Mathematica (2018).
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- Sato-Tate equidistribution of certain families of Artin L-functions
- with A. Södergren and N. Templier. Published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (2017).
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- Binary quartic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of the average rank of elliptic curves
- with M. Bhargava. Published in Annals of Mathematics (2015).
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- Ternary cubic forms having bounded invariants, and the existence of a positive proportion of elliptic curves having rank 0
- with M. Bhargava. Published in Annals of Mathematics (2015).
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- Counting S5 fields with a power saving error term
- with J. Tsimerman. Published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (2014).
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- Abelian surfaces over finite fields with prescribed groups
- with C. David, D. Garton, Z. Scherr, E. Smith, L. Thompson. Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (2014).
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- On the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems and second order terms
- with M. Bhargava and J. Tsimerman. Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (2013).
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- The average rank of elliptic curves over number fields
- Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University (2013).
Preprints
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- Counting number fields of fixed degree by their smallest defining polynomial
- with S. Arango-Piñeros, F. Gundlach, R. J. Lemke Oliver, K. J. McGown, W. Sawin, A. Serrano López, and I. Varma. Posted to the arXiv (2026).
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- The existence of infinitely many cubic fields with class group of exact 2-rank 1
- with M. Bhargava, A. Siad, and A. A. Swaminathan. Posted to the arXiv (2026).
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- Secondary terms in the counting functions of quartic fields II
- with J. Tsimerman. Posted to the arXiv (2025).
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- The second moment of the size of the 2-class group of monogenized cubic fields
- with M. Bhargava and A. A. Swaminathan. Posted to the arXiv (2025).
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- Finiteness theorems for some representations of GL3
- with F. Janbazi. Posted to the arXiv (2025).
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- Secondary terms in the counting functions of quartic fields I
- with J. Tsimerman. Posted to the arXiv (2025).
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- Nontrivial bounds on 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-torsion in class groups of number fields, conditional on standard L-function conjectures
- with J. Tsimerman. Posted to the arXiv (2021).
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- The second moment of the 2-Selmer groups of elliptic curves
- with M. Bhargava and A. A. Swaminathan. Posted to the arXiv (2021).
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- Geometry of numbers methods over global fields I: Prehomogeneous vector spaces
- with M. Bhargava and X. Wang. Posted to the arXiv (2015).
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- The average size of the 5-Selmer group of elliptic curves is 6, and the average rank is less than 1
- with M. Bhargava. Posted to the arXiv (2013).
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- The average number of elements in the 4-Selmer groups of elliptic curves is 7
- with M. Bhargava. Posted to the arXiv (2013).
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- Geometry of numbers methods over global fields II: Coregular vector spaces
- with M. Bhargava and X. Wang. Preprint available on request.