Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We study the family of elliptic curves Em X3 + Y3 = m where m is a cubefree integer.
The elliptic curves Em with even analytic rank and those with odd analytic rank are proved to be equally distributed. It is proved that the number of cubefree integers m ≤ X such that the analytic rank of Em is even and ≥ 2 is at least CX2/3-ε, where ε is arbitrarily small and C is a positive constant, for X large enough. Therefore, if we assume the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, the number of all cubefree integers m ≤ X such that the equation X3 + Y3 = m have at least two independent rational solutions is at least CX2/3-ε.