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Sporadic points of odd degree on $X_1(N)$ coming from $\mathbb{Q}$-curves

Number Theory 2021-09-14 v2

Abstract

We say a closed point xx on a curve CC is sporadic if there are only finitely many points on CC of degree at most deg(x)(x). In the case where CC is the modular curve X1(N)X_1(N), most known examples of sporadic points come from elliptic curves with complex multiplication (CM). We seek to understand all sporadic points on X1(N)X_1(N) corresponding to Q\mathbb{Q}-curves, which are elliptic curves isogenous to their Galois conjugates. This class contains not only all CM elliptic curves, but also any elliptic curve Q\overline{\mathbb{Q}}-isogenous to one with a rational jj-invariant, among others. In this paper, we show that all non-CM Q\mathbb{Q}-curves giving rise to a sporadic point of odd degree lie in the Q\overline{\mathbb{Q}}-isogeny class of the elliptic curve with jj-invariant 140625/8-140625/8. In addition, we show that a stronger version of this finiteness result would imply Serre's Uniformity Conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2107.10909,
  title  = {Sporadic points of odd degree on $X_1(N)$ coming from $\mathbb{Q}$-curves},
  author = {Abbey Bourdon and Filip Najman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10909},
  year   = {2021}
}

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