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Endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_p$

Number Theory 2019-07-30 v1

Abstract

Let p>3p>3 be a fixed prime. For a supersingular elliptic curve EE over Fp\mathbb{F}_p with jj-invariant j(E)Fp\{0,1728}j(E)\in \mathbb{F}_p\backslash\{0, 1728\}, it is well known that the Frobenius map π=((x,y)(xp,yp))End(E)\pi=((x,y)\mapsto (x^p, y^p))\in \mathrm{End}(E) satisfies π2=p{\pi}^2=-p. A result of Ibukiyama tells us that End(E)\mathrm{End}(E) is a maximal order in End(E)Q\mathrm{End}(E)\otimes \mathbb{Q} associated to a (minimal) prime qq satisfying q3mod8q\equiv 3 \bmod 8 and the quadratic residue (pq)=1\bigl(\frac{p}{q}\bigr)=-1 according to 1+π2End(E)\frac{1+\pi}{2}\notin \mathrm{End}(E) or 1+π2End(E)\frac{1+\pi}{2}\in \mathrm{End}(E). Let qjq_j denote the minimal qq for EE with j=j(E)j=j(E). Firstly, we determine the neighborhood of the vertex [E][E] in the supersingular \ell-isogeny graph if 1+π2End(E)\frac{1+\pi}{2}\notin \mathrm{End}(E) and p>q2p>q\ell^2 or 1+π2End(E)\frac{1+\pi}{2}\in \mathrm{End}(E) and p>4q2p>4q\ell^2. In particular, under our assumption, we show that there are at most two vertices defined over Fp\mathbb{F}_p adjacent to [E][E]. Next, under GRH, we obtain the bound M(p)M(p) of qjq_j for all jj and estimate the number of supersingular elliptic curves with qj<cpq_j<c\sqrt{p}. We also computer the upper bound M(p)M(p) for all p<2000p<2000 numerically and show that M(p)>pM(p)>\sqrt{p} except p=11,23p=11,23 and M(p)<plog2pM(p)<p\log^2 p for all pp.

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@article{arxiv.1907.12185,
  title  = {Endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_p$},
  author = {Songsong Li and Yi Ouyang and Zheng Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12185},
  year   = {2019}
}