Almost totally complex points on elliptic curves
Abstract
Let be a quadratic extension of totally real number fields, and let be an elliptic curve over which is isogenous to its Galois conjugate over . A quadratic extension is said to be almost totally complex (ATC) if all archimedean places of but one extend to a complex place of . The main goal of this note is to provide a new construction of a supply of Darmon-like points on , which are conjecturally defined over certain ring class fields of . These points are constructed by means of an extension of Darmon's ATR method to higher dimensional modular abelian varieties, from which they inherit the following features: they are algebraic provided Darmon's conjectures on ATR points hold true, and they are explicitly computable, as we illustrate with a detailed example that provides certain numerical evidence for the validity of our conjectures.
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@article{arxiv.1204.3402,
title = {Almost totally complex points on elliptic curves},
author = {Xavier Guitart and Victor Rotger and Yu Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3402},
year = {2012}
}
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24 pages