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Counting elliptic curves with prescribed level structures over number fields

Number Theory 2022-06-03 v2

Abstract

Harron and Snowden counted the number of elliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q} up to height XX with torsion group GG for each possible torsion group GG over Q\mathbb{Q}. In this paper we generalize their result to all number fields and all level structures GG such that the corresponding modular curve XGX_G is a weighted projective line P(w0,w1)\mathbb{P}(w_0,w_1) and the morphism XGX(1)X_G\to X(1) satisfies a certain condition. In particular, this includes all modular curves X1(m,n)X_1(m,n) with coarse moduli space of genus 00. We prove our results by defining a size function on P(w0,w1)\mathbb{P}(w_0,w_1) following unpublished work of Deng, and working out how to count the number of points on P(w0,w1)\mathbb{P}(w_0,w_1) up to size XX.

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@article{arxiv.2008.05280,
  title  = {Counting elliptic curves with prescribed level structures over number fields},
  author = {Peter Bruin and Filip Najman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05280},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages, final version, to appear Journal of the LMS

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