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Cyclic reduction densities for elliptic curves

Number Theory 2022-10-25 v2

Abstract

For an elliptic curve EE defined over a number field KK, the heuristic density of the set of primes of KK for which EE has cyclic reduction is given by an inclusion-exclusion sum δE/K\delta_{E/K} involving the degrees of the mm-division fields KmK_m of EE over KK. This density can be proved to be correct under assumption of GRH. For EE without complex multiplication (CM), we show that δE/K\delta_{E/K} is the product of an explicit non-negative rational number reflecting the finite entanglement of the division fields of EE and a universal infinite Artin-type product. For EE admitting CM over KK by a quadratic order O{\mathcal{O}}, we show that δE/K\delta_{E/K} admits a similar `factorization' in which the Artin type product also depends on O{\mathcal{O}}. For EE admitting CM over Kˉ\bar K by an order O⊄K{\mathcal{O}}\not\subset K, which occurs for K=QK={\bf Q}, the entanglement of division fields over KK is non-finite. In this case we write δE/K\delta_{E/K} as the sum of two contributions coming from the primes of KK that are split and inert in O{\mathcal{O}}. The split contribution can be dealt with by the previous methods, the inert contribution is of a different nature. We determine the ways in which the density can vanish, and provide numerical examples of the different kinds of densities.

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@article{arxiv.2001.00028,
  title  = {Cyclic reduction densities for elliptic curves},
  author = {Francesco Campagna and Peter Stevenhagen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00028},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

21 pages; this paper extends the earlier ArXiv preprint 2001.00028 by including the case of CM-curves

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