Torsion points of small order on hyperelliptic curves
Abstract
Let be a hyperelliptic curve of genus over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and one of the Weierstrass points in . Let be the jacobian of , which is a -dimensional abelian variety over . Let us consider the canonical embedding of into that sends to the zero of the group law on . This embedding allows us to identify with a certain subset of the commutative group . A special case of the famous theorem of Raynaud (Manin--Mumford conjecture) asserts that the set of torsion points in is finite. It is well known that the points of order 2 in are exactly the "remaining" Weierstrass points. One of the authors proved that there are no torsion points of order in if . So, it is natural to study torsion points of order (notice that the number of such points in is always even). Recently, the authors proved that there are infinitely many (for a given ) mutually nonisomorphic pairs such that contains at least four points of order . In the present paper we prove that (for a given ) there are at most finitely many (up to a isomorphism) pairs such that contains at least six points of order .
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@article{arxiv.2101.03114,
title = {Torsion points of small order on hyperelliptic curves},
author = {Boris M. Bekker and Yuri G. Zarhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03114},
year = {2021}
}
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13 pages