On a probabilistic local-global principle for torsion on elliptic curves
Number Theory
2021-07-20 v3
Abstract
Let be a positive integer and let be an elliptic curve over with the property that m\mid#E(\mathbb{F}_p) for a density set of primes . Building upon work of Katz and Harron-Snowden, we study the probability that divides the the order of the torsion subgroup of : we find it is nonzero for all and we compute it exactly when . As a supplement, we give an asymptotic count of elliptic curves with extra level structure when the parametrizing modular curve arises from the quotient by a torsion-free group of genus zero.
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@article{arxiv.2005.06669,
title = {On a probabilistic local-global principle for torsion on elliptic curves},
author = {John Cullinan and Meagan Kenney and John Voight},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06669},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
51 pages, 2 figures; incorporated final corrections and added/updated references