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Cubic and quartic points on modular curves using generalised symmetric Chabauty

Number Theory 2024-11-11 v2

Abstract

Answering a question of Zureick-Brown, we determine the cubic points on the modular curves X0(N)X_0(N) for N{53,57,61,65,67,73}N \in \{53,57,61,65,67,73\} as well as the quartic points on X0(65)X_0(65). To do so, we develop a "partially relative" symmetric Chabauty method. Our results generalise current symmetric Chabauty theorems, and improve upon them by lowering the involved prime bound. For our curves a number of novelties occur. We prove a "higher order" Chabauty theorem to deal with these cases. Finally, to study the isolated quartic points on X0(65)X_0(65), we rigorously compute the full rational Mordell--Weil group of its Jacobian.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.08236,
  title  = {Cubic and quartic points on modular curves using generalised symmetric Chabauty},
  author = {Josha Box and Stevan Gajović and Pip Goodman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08236},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

35 pages. Final version. To appear in IMRN

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