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Quadratic Chabauty for modular curves: Algorithms and examples

Number Theory 2023-03-08 v4 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We describe how the quadratic Chabauty method may be applied to explicitly determine the set of rational points on modular curves of genus g>1g>1 whose Jacobians have Mordell--Weil rank gg. This extends our previous work on the split Cartan curve of level 13 and allows us to consider modular curves that may have few known rational points or nontrivial local height contributions at primes of bad reduction. We illustrate our algorithms with a number of examples where we determine the set of rational points on several modular curves of genus 2 and 3: this includes Atkin--Lehner quotients X0+(N)X_0^+(N) of prime level NN, the curve XS4(13)X_{S_4}(13), as well as a few other curves relevant to Mazur's Program B. We also describe the computation of rational points on the genus 6 non-split Cartan modular curve Xns+(17)X_{\textrm{ns}} ^+ (17).

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@article{arxiv.2101.01862,
  title  = {Quadratic Chabauty for modular curves: Algorithms and examples},
  author = {Jennifer S. Balakrishnan and Netan Dogra and Jan Steffen Müller and Jan Tuitman and Jan Vonk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.01862},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Updated following referee's comments. To appear in Comp. Math

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