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Ideal class groups of division fields of elliptic curves and everywhere unramified rational points

Number Theory 2024-06-18 v3

Abstract

Let EE be an elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q}, pp an odd prime number and nn a positive integer. In this article, we investigate the ideal class group Cl(Q(E[pn]))\mathrm{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p^n])) of the pnp^n-division field Q(E[pn])\mathbb{Q}(E[p^n]) of EE. We introduce a certain subgroup E(Q)ur,pnE(\mathbb{Q})_{\mathrm{ur},p^n} of E(Q)E(\mathbb{Q}) and study the pp-adic valuation of the class number #Cl(Q(E[pn]))\#\mathrm{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p^n])). In addition, when n=1n = 1, we further study Cl(Q(E[p]))\mathrm{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p])) as a Gal(Q(E[p])/Q)\mathrm{Gal}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p])/\mathbb{Q})- module. More precisely, we study the semi-simplification (Cl(Q(E[p]))Zp)ss(\mathrm{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p]))\otimes \mathbb{Z}_p)^{\mathrm{ss}} of Cl(Q(E[p]))Zp\mathrm{Cl}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p]))\otimes \mathbb{Z}_p as a Zp[Gal(Q(E[p])/Q)]\mathbb{Z}_p[\mathrm{Gal}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p])/\mathbb{Q})]-module. We obtain a lower bound of the multiplicity of the E[p]E[p]-component in the semi-simplification when E[p]E[p] is an irreducible Gal(Q(E[p])/Q)\mathrm{Gal}(\mathbb{Q}(E[p])/\mathbb{Q})-module.

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@article{arxiv.2304.05035,
  title  = {Ideal class groups of division fields of elliptic curves and everywhere unramified rational points},
  author = {Naoto Dainobu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05035},
  year   = {2024}
}

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