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Mathematics of Computation

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1960 (published as Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation 1943-1959), Mathematics of Computation is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in computational mathematics.

ISSN 1088-6842 (online) ISSN 0025-5718 (print)

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Congruences of elliptic curves arising from nonsurjective mod $N$ Galois representations
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by Sam Frengley;
Math. Comp. 92 (2023), 409-450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3770
Published electronically: August 25, 2022

Abstract:

We study $N$-congruences between quadratic twists of elliptic curves. If $N$ has exactly two distinct prime factors we show that these are parametrised by double covers of certain modular curves. In many, but not all cases, the modular curves in question correspond to the normaliser of a Cartan subgroup of $\operatorname {GL}_2(\mathbb {Z}/N\mathbb {Z})$. By computing explicit models for these double covers we find all pairs $(N, r)$ such that there exist infinitely many $j$-invariants of elliptic curves $E/\mathbb {Q}$ which are $N$-congruent with power $r$ to a quadratic twist of $E$. We also find an example of a $48$-congruence over $\mathbb {Q}$. We make a conjecture classifying nontrivial $(N,r)$-congruences between quadratic twists of elliptic curves over $\mathbb {Q}$.

Finally, we give a more detailed analysis of the level $15$ case. We use elliptic Chabauty to determine the rational points on a modular curve of genus $2$ whose Jacobian has rank $2$ and which arises as a double cover of the modular curve $X(\mathrm {ns\,} 3^+, \mathrm {ns\,} 5^+)$. As a consequence we obtain a new proof of the class number $1$ problem.

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Bibliographic Information
  • Sam Frengley
  • Affiliation: University of Cambridge, DPMMS, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, United Kingdom
  • Email: stf32@cam.ac.uk
  • Received by editor(s): November 17, 2021
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 2, 2022
  • Published electronically: August 25, 2022
  • Additional Notes: The author was financially supported by the Woolf Fisher and Cambridge Trusts.
  • © Copyright 2022 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 92 (2023), 409-450
  • MSC (2020): Primary 11G05; Secondary 11F80
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3770
  • MathSciNet review: 4496970