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The automorphisms of certain Kummer surfaces act on the points mod $p$ by the alternating group

Number Theory 2023-11-09 v1 Algebraic Geometry Representation Theory

Abstract

For the family of Kummer surfaces of the square of an elliptic curve over the prime field Fp\mathbb{F}_p with pp odd, we show that if the automorphism group acts transitively on the set of points then the action is at least alternating. This is analogous to a result of Meiri, Puder, and Chen arXiv:1702.08358 on the points mod pp of the Markoff surface.

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@article{arxiv.2311.04353,
  title  = {The automorphisms of certain Kummer surfaces act on the points mod $p$ by the alternating group},
  author = {Adam Logan and Owen Patashnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04353},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages with a short appendix