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An algorithm for determining torsion growth of elliptic curves

Number Theory 2024-02-09 v3

Abstract

We present a fast algorithm that takes as input an elliptic curve defined over Q\mathbb Q and an integer dd and returns all the number fields KK of degree dd' dividing dd such that E(K)torsE(K)_{tors} contains E(F)torsE(F)_{tors} as a proper subgroup, for all FKF \varsubsetneq K. We ran this algorithm on all elliptic curves of conductor less than 400.000 (a total of 2.483.649 curves) and all d23d \leq 23 and collected various interesting data. In particular, we find a degree 6 sporadic point on X1(4,12)X_1(4,12), which is so far the lowest known degree a sporadic point on X1(m,n)X_1(m,n), for m2m\geq 2.

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@article{arxiv.1904.07071,
  title  = {An algorithm for determining torsion growth of elliptic curves},
  author = {Enrique González-Jiménez and Filip Najman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07071},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages, Added Supplementary material

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