On the Mordell-Weil rank and $2$-Selmer group of a family of elliptic curves

Abstract

We consider the parametric family of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ of the form $E_{m} : y^{2} = x(x - n_{1})(x - n_{2}) + t^{2}$, where $n_{1}$, $n_{2}$ and $t$ are particular polynomial expressions in an integral variable $m$. In this paper, we investigate the torsion group $E_{m}(\mathbb{Q})_{\rm{tors}}$, a lower bound for the Mordell-Weil rank $r({E_{m}})$ and the $2$-Selmer group ${\rm{Sel}}_{2}(E_{m})$ under certain conditions on $m$. This extends the previous works done in this direction, which are mostly concerned with the Mordell-Weil ranks of various parametric families of elliptic curves.