PROCEEDINGS OF THE LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, cilt.102, ss.1053-1098, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
Let E be an elliptic curve over a global field of positive characteristic. Let r be the order of zero at s = 0 of the Hasse-Weil L-function with bad factors removed. The Parshin conjecture on the vanishing of higher rational K-theory of projective smooth schemes over finite fields implies dim(Q) K-2(E) circle times(Z) Q = r. It is shown that dimQ K-2(E) circle times(Z) Q >= r.