Ramification in Division Fields and Sporadic Points on Modular Curves
Number Theory
2021-10-19 v4
Abstract
Consider an elliptic curve over a number field . Suppose that has supersingular reduction at some prime of lying above the rational prime . We completely classify the valuations of the -torsion points of by the valuation of a coefficient of the division polynomial. We apply this description to find the minimum necessary ramification at in order for to have a point of exact order . Using this bound we show that sporadic points on the modular curve cannot correspond to supersingular elliptic curves without a canonical subgroup. We generalize our methods to with composite.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.04809,
title = {Ramification in Division Fields and Sporadic Points on Modular Curves},
author = {Hanson Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04809},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
19 pages. Minor revisions. Comments are welcome!