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On pairs of 17-congruent elliptic curves

Number Theory 2021-06-04 v1

Abstract

We compute explicit equations for the surfaces Z(17,1) and Z(17,3) parametrising pairs of 1717-congruent elliptic curves. We find that each is a double cover of the same elliptic K3-surface. We use these equations to exhibit the first non-trivial example of a pair of symplectically 17-congruent elliptic curves over the rationals. We also compute the corresponding genus 2 curve whose Jacobian has a (17,17)(17,17)-splitting.

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@article{arxiv.2106.02033,
  title  = {On pairs of 17-congruent elliptic curves},
  author = {Tom Fisher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02033},
  year   = {2021}
}

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