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Faltings elliptic curves in twisted $\mathbb Q$-isogeny classes

Number Theory 2025-09-30 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let GG be the graph attached to the Q\mathbb Q-isogeny class of an elliptic curve defined over Q\mathbb Q: that is, a vertex for every elliptic curve defined over Q\mathbb Q 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 GG with minimal Faltings height. We call this curve the Faltings elliptic curve in GG. For every square-free integer dd, we consider the graph~GdG^d attached to the twisted elliptic curves in GG by the quadratic character of Q(d)\mathbb Q(\sqrt{d}). It turns out that GG and GdG^d are canonically isomorphic as abstract graphs (the isomorphism identifies the vertices with equal jj-invariant). In this paper we determine which vertex is the Faltings elliptic curve in GdG^d. We also obtain the probability of a vertex in GG to be the Faltings elliptic curve in~GdG^d. It turns out that this probability depends on the pp-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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