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Density of Elliptic Curves over Number Fields with Prescribed Torsion Subgroups

Number Theory 2025-04-03 v3

Abstract

Let KK be a number field. For positive integers mm and nn such that mnm\mid n, we let Sm,n\mathscr{S}_{m,n} be the set of elliptic curves E/KE/K defined over KK such that E(K)torsTZ/mZ×Z/nZE(K)_{\operatorname{tors}}\supseteq \mathscr{T}\cong \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}. We prove that if the genus of the modular curve X1(m,n)X_{1}(m,n) is 00, then `almost all' ESm,nE\in \mathscr{S}_{m,n} satisfy that E(K)tors=TE(K)_{\operatorname{tors}}= \mathscr{T}, i.e., not larger than T\mathscr{T}. In particular, if m=n=1m=n=1, this result generalizes Duke's theorem over Q\mathbb{Q} to arbitrary number fields KK for the trivial torsion subgroup.

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@article{arxiv.2209.02889,
  title  = {Density of Elliptic Curves over Number Fields with Prescribed Torsion Subgroups},
  author = {Bo-Hae Im and Hansol Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02889},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Some arguments are modified. For example, the proof of Theorem 1.7 is modified