Supersingular prime (algebraic number theory)

Noam Elkies showed that every elliptic curve over the rational numbers has infinitely many supersingular primes.

However, the set of supersingular primes has asymptotic density zero (if E does not have complex multiplication).

Lang & Trotter (1976) conjectured that the number of supersingular primes less than a bound X is within a constant multiple of

, using heuristics involving the distribution of eigenvalues of the Frobenius endomorphism.

More generally, if K is any global field—i.e., a finite extension either of Q or of Fp(t)—and A is an abelian variety defined over K, then a supersingular prime