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Almost totally complex points on elliptic curves

Number Theory 2012-04-17 v1

Abstract

Let F/F0F/F_0 be a quadratic extension of totally real number fields, and let EE be an elliptic curve over FF which is isogenous to its Galois conjugate over F0F_0. A quadratic extension M/FM/F is said to be almost totally complex (ATC) if all archimedean places of FF but one extend to a complex place of MM. The main goal of this note is to provide a new construction of a supply of Darmon-like points on EE, which are conjecturally defined over certain ring class fields of MM. These points are constructed by means of an extension of Darmon's ATR method to higher dimensional modular abelian varieties, from which they inherit the following features: they are algebraic provided Darmon's conjectures on ATR points hold true, and they are explicitly computable, as we illustrate with a detailed example that provides certain numerical evidence for the validity of our conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.1204.3402,
  title  = {Almost totally complex points on elliptic curves},
  author = {Xavier Guitart and Victor Rotger and Yu Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3402},
  year   = {2012}
}

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