An analogue of Kida’s formula for elliptic curves with additive reduction

Abstract

We study the Iwasawa theory of p-primary Selmer groups of elliptic curves E over a number field K. Assume that E has additive reduction at the primes of K above p. In this context, we prove that the Iwasawa invariants satisfy an analogue of the Riemann–Hurwitz formula. This generalizes a result of Hachimori and Matsuno. We apply our results to study rank stability questions for elliptic curves in prime cyclic extensions of \(\mathbb {Q}\). These extensions are ordered by their absolute discriminant and we prove an asymptotic lower bound for the density of extensions in which the Iwasawa invariants as well as the rank of the elliptic curve is stable.