Faltings elliptic curves in twisted $\mathbb Q$-isogeny classes
Abstract
Let be the graph attached to the -isogeny class of an elliptic curve defined over : that is, a vertex for every elliptic curve defined over in the isogeny class, and edges in correspondence with the prime degree rational isogenies between them. Stevens shows that there is a unique elliptic curve in with minimal Faltings height. We call this curve the Faltings elliptic curve in . For every square-free integer , we consider the graph~ attached to the twisted elliptic curves in by the quadratic character of . It turns out that and are canonically isomorphic as abstract graphs (the isomorphism identifies the vertices with equal -invariant). In this paper we determine which vertex is the Faltings elliptic curve in . We also obtain the probability of a vertex in to be the Faltings elliptic curve in~. It turns out that this probability depends on the -adic valuations of rational values of certain modular functions.
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@article{arxiv.2509.23283,
title = {Faltings elliptic curves in twisted $\mathbb Q$-isogeny classes},
author = {Enrique González-Jiménez and Joan-C. Lario},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23283},
year = {2025}
}
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