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Let $p \geq 5$ be a prime number. We find all the possible subgroups $G$ of ${\rm GL}_2 ( \mathbb{Z} / p \mathbb{Z} )$ such that there exists a number field $k$ and an elliptic curve ${\mathcal{E}}$ defined over $k$ such that the ${\rm Gal}…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Gabriele Ranieri

Let A be the coordinate ring of an affine elliptic curve (over an infinite field k) of the form X-{p}, where X is projective and p is a closed point on X. Denote by F the function field of X. We show that the image of H_*(GL_2(A),Z) in…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kevin P. Knudson

A theorem of Green says that a line bundle of degree at least $2g+1+p$ on a smooth curve $X$ of genus $g$ has property $N_p$. We prove a similar conclusion for certain singular, reducible curves $X$ under suitable degree bounds over all…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Ziv Ran

Consider an elliptic curve $E$ over a number field $K$. Suppose that $E$ has supersingular reduction at some prime $\mathfrak{p}$ of $K$ lying above the rational prime $p$. We completely classify the valuations of the $p^n$-torsion points…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Hanson Smith

We study cohomologies of a curve with an action of a finite $p$-group over a field of characteristic $p$. Assuming the existence of a certain 'magical element' in the function field of the curve, we compute the equivariant structure of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Jędrzej Garnek

We study GL-equivariant modules over the infinite variable polynomial ring $S = k[x_1, x_2, ..., x_n, ...]$ with $k$ an infinite field of characteristic $p > 0$. We extend many of Sam--Snowden's far-reaching results from characteristic zero…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Karthik Ganapathy

The gonality of a smooth geometrically connected curve over a field $k$ is the smallest degree of a nonconstant $k$-morphism from the curve to the projective line. In general, the gonality of a curve of genus $g \ge 2$ is at most $2g - 2$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Xander Faber , Jon Grantham , Everett W. Howe

We characterize the possible groups $E(\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})$ arising from elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ in terms of the groups $E(\mathbb{F}_p)$, with $p$ varying among the prime divisors of $N$. This classification is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Massimiliano Sala , Daniele Taufer

To every covering of curves, we associate several varieties having the same field of moduli and same fields of definition. We deduce examples of curves having Q (the field of rationals) as field of moduli, that admit models over any…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-31 Jean-Marc Couveignes , Emmanuel Hallouin

For every odd prime number p, we give examples of non-constant smooth families of genus 2 curves over fields of characteristic p which have pro-Galois (pro-\'etale) covers of infinite degree with geometrically connected fibers. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-18 Claus Diem , Gerhard Frey

For any smooth irreducible projective curve $X$, the gonality sequence $\{d_r \;| \; r \in \mathbb N \}$ is a strictly increasing sequence of positive integer invariants of $X$. In most known cases $d_{r+1}$ is not much bigger than $d_r$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-16 H. Lange , G. Martens

For a complex elliptic curve $E$ and a point $p$ of order $n$ on it, the images of the points $p_k=kp$ under the Weierstrass embedding of $E$ into $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2$ are collinear if and only if the sum of indices is divisible by $n$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Lev Borisov , Xavier Roulleau

Kaneko and Sakai recently observed that certain elliptic curves whose associated newforms (by the modularity theorem) are given by the eta-quotients can be characterized by a particular differential equation involving modular forms and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Matija Kazalicki , Yuichi Sakai , Koji Tasaka

It is well known that given a finitely generated torsion module $M$ over the Iwasawa algebra $\mathbb Z_p[[\Gamma]]$, where $\Gamma \cong \mathbb Z_p$, there exists a continuous $p$-adic character $\rho$ of $\Gamma$ such that, for the twist…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Somnath Jha , Sudhanshu Shekhar

For every group $\{\pm1\}\subseteq \Delta\subseteq (\mathbb Z/N\mathbb Z)^\times$, there exists an intermediate modular curve $X_\Delta(N)$. In this paper we determine all curves $X_\Delta(N)$ with infinitely many points of degree $4$ over…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Maarten Derickx , Petar Orlić

We study the action of the Galois group $G$ of a finite extension $K/k$ of number fields on the points on an elliptic curve $E$. For an odd prime $p$, we aim to determine the structure of the $p$-adic completion of the Mordell-Weil group…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thomas Vavasour , Christian Wuthrich

We show that the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities of the reductions to positive characteristics of an irreducible projective curve in characteristic 0 have a well-defined limit as the characteristic tends to infinity.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Trivedi

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over a number field $K$, let $\alpha \in E(K)$ be a point of infinite order, and let $N^{-1}\alpha$ be the set of $N$-division points of $\alpha$ in $E(\bar{K})$. We prove strong effective and uniform…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Davide Lombardo , Sebastiano Tronto

Let E be an elliptic curve defined over a number field K, V the complexification of the group of rational points of E over an algebraic closure L of K, and G the Galois group Gal(L/K). We show that for each root of unity w, the set of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bo-Hae Im , Michael Larsen

A fine moduli space is constructed, for cyclic-by-$\mathsf{p}$ covers of an affine curve over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $\mathsf{p}>0$. An intersection of finitely many fine moduli spaces for cyclic-by-$\mathsf{p}$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Jianru Zhang