Impossible intersections in a Weierstrass family of elliptic curves
Number Theory
2016-07-19 v2 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
Consider the Weierstrass family of elliptic curves parametrized by nonzero , and let . In this article, given such that , we provide an explicit description for the set of parameters such that and are simultaneously torsion for . In particular we prove that the aforementioned set is empty unless . Furthermore, we show that this set is empty even when provided that and have distinct adic absolute values and the ramification index is coprime with . We also improve upon a recent result of Stoll concerning the Legendre family of elliptic curves , which itself strengthened earlier work of Masser and Zannier by establishing that provided have distinct reduction modulo , the set is empty.
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@article{arxiv.1507.07047,
title = {Impossible intersections in a Weierstrass family of elliptic curves},
author = {Niki Myrto Mavraki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07047},
year = {2016}
}
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16 pages