On the distribution of the of Frobenius elements on elliptic curves over function fields

Abstract

Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve over $\mathbb{F}_q$ with function field $K$, $E/K$ a nonconstant elliptic curve and $ϕ:\mathcal{E}\to C$ its minimal regular model. For each $P\in C$ such that $E$ has good reduction at $P$, i.e., the fiber $\mathcal{E}_P=ϕ^{-1}(P)$ is smooth, the eigenvalues of the zeta-function of $\mathcal{E}_P$ over the residue field $κ_P$ of $P$ are of the form $q_P^{1/2}e^{iθ_P},q_{P}e^{-iθ_P}$, where $q_P=q^{°(P)}$ and $0\leθ_P\leπ$. The goal of this note is to determine given an integer $B\ge 1$, $α,β\in[0,π]$ the number of $P\in C$ where the reduction of $E$ is good and such that $°(P)\le B$ and $α\leθ_P\leβ$.