Elliptic curves with Galois-stable cyclic subgroups of order 4
Number Theory
2020-05-01 v1
Abstract
Infinitely many elliptic curves over have a Galois-stable cyclic subgroup of order 4. Such subgroups come in pairs, which intersect in their subgroups of order 2. Let denote the number of elliptic curves over with at least pairs of Galois-stable cyclic subgroups of order 4, and height at most . In this article we show that . We also show, as , that , the precise nature of the error term being related to the prime number theorem and the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function in the critical strip. Here, , , and are calculable constants. Lastly, we show that for (the result being trivial for given that an elliptic curve has 6 cyclic subgroups of order 4).
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@article{arxiv.2004.14947,
title = {Elliptic curves with Galois-stable cyclic subgroups of order 4},
author = {Carl Pomerance and Edward F. Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14947},
year = {2020}
}