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On some special classes of complex elliptic curves

Number Theory 2011-11-07 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we classify the complex elliptic curves EE for which there exist cyclic subgroups C(E,+)C\leq (E,+) of order nn such that the elliptic curves EE and E/CE/C are isomorphic, where nn is a positive integer. Important examples are provided in the last section. Moreover, we answer the following question: given a complex elliptic curve E, when can one find a cyclic subgroup CC of order nn of (E,+)(E,+) such that (E,C)(EC,E[n]C)(E,C)\sim(\frac{E}{C},\frac{E[n]}{C}), E[n]E[n] being the nn-torsion subgroup of EE, classifying in this way the fixed points of the action of the Fricke involution on the open modular curves Y0(n)Y_0(n)

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@article{arxiv.1111.1073,
  title  = {On some special classes of complex elliptic curves},
  author = {Bogdan Canepa and Radu Gaba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1073},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages

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