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Counting elliptic curves with prescribed torsion

Number Theory 2013-11-21 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Mazur's theorem states that there are exactly 15 possibilities for the torsion subgroup of an elliptic curve over the rational numbers. We determine how often each of these groups actually occurs. Precisely, if GG is one of these 15 groups, we show that the number of elliptic curves up to height XX whose torsion subgroup is isomorphic to GG is on the order of X1/dX^{1/d}, for some number d=d(G)d=d(G) which we compute.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4920,
  title  = {Counting elliptic curves with prescribed torsion},
  author = {Robert Harron and Andrew Snowden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4920},
  year   = {2013}
}

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