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Prime isogenous discriminant ideal twins

Number Theory 2026-04-14 v2

Abstract

Let E1E_{1} and E2E_{2} be elliptic curves defined over a number field KK. We say that E1E_{1} and E2E_{2} are discriminant ideal twins if they are not KK-isomorphic and have the same minimal discriminant ideal and conductor. Such curves are said to be discriminant twins if, for each prime p\mathfrak{p} of KK, there are p\mathfrak{p}-minimal models for E1E_{1} and E2E_{2} whose discriminants are equal. This article explicitly classifies all prime-isogenous discriminant (ideal) twins over Q\mathbb{Q}. We obtain this classification as a consequence of our main results, which constructively gives all pp-isogenous discriminant ideal twins over number fields where p{2,3,5,7,13}p\in\left\{ 2,3,5,7,13\right\} , i.e., where X0(p)X_0(p) has genus 00. In particular, we find that up to twist, there are finitely many pp-isogenous discriminant ideal twins if and only if KK is Q\mathbb{Q} or an imaginary quadratic field. In the latter case, we provide instructions for finding the finitely many pairs of jj-invariants that result in pp-isogenous discriminant ideal twins. We prove our results by considering the local data of parameterized pp-isogenous elliptic curves.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.19183,
  title  = {Prime isogenous discriminant ideal twins},
  author = {Alexander J. Barrios and Maila Brucal-Hallare and Alyson Deines and Piper Harris and Manami Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.19183},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

35 pages; incorporates referee's suggestions; final version to appear in Journal of Number Theory

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