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Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many rational points

Number Theory 2021-04-05 v5

Abstract

For each open subgroup GG of GL2(Z^){\rm GL}_2(\hat{\mathbb{Z}}) containing I-I with full determinant, let XG/QX_G/\mathbb{Q} denote the modular curve that loosely parametrizes elliptic curves whose Galois representation, which arises from the Galois action on its torsion points, has image contained in GG. Up to conjugacy, we determine a complete list of the 248248 such groups GG of prime power level for which XG(Q)X_G(\mathbb{Q}) is infinite. For each GG, we also construct explicit maps from each XGX_G to the jj-line. This list consists of 220220 modular curves of genus 00 and 2828 modular curves of genus 11. For each prime \ell, these results provide an explicit classification of the possible images of the \ell-adic Galois representations arising from elliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q} that is complete except for a finite set of exceptional jj-invariants.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.03988,
  title  = {Modular curves of prime-power level with infinitely many rational points},
  author = {Andrew V. Sutherland and David Zywina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03988},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

two typos in the sup column of Table 1 have been corrected