Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many quadratic points
Number Theory
2026-02-25 v2
Abstract
We completely determine the open subgroups of of prime-power level that satisfy and for which the corresponding modular curve has infinitely many quadratic points. When this is equivalent to determining all the hyperelliptic modular curves of prime-power level and all the bielliptic modular curves of prime-power level that admit a degree two map to a positive rank elliptic curve. From the moduli perspective, this means that there are exactly 1085 subgroups of of prime-power level for which there are infinitely many elliptic curves over quadratic extensions such that is conjugate to a subgroup of .
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@article{arxiv.2509.22895,
title = {Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many quadratic points},
author = {Michael Cerchia and Rakvi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22895},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages. Exposition changed after referee report. Comments welcome