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Elliptic curves with maximally disjoint division fields

Number Theory 2017-10-18 v1

Abstract

One of the many interesting algebraic objects associated to a given rational elliptic curve, EE, is its full-torsion representation ρE:Gal(Qˉ/Q)GL2(Z^)\rho_E:\mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\mathbf{Q}}/\mathbf{Q})\to\mathrm{GL}_2(\hat{\mathbf{Z}}). Generalizing this idea, one can create another full-torsion Galois representation, ρ(E1,E2):Gal(Qˉ/Q)(GL2(Z^))2\rho_{(E_1,E_2)}:\mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\mathbf{Q}}/\mathbf{Q})\to\left(\mathrm{GL}_2(\hat{\mathbf{Z}})\right)^2 associated to a pair (E1,E2)(E_1,E_2) of rational elliptic curves. The goal of this paper is to provide an infinite number of concrete examples of pairs of elliptic curves whose associated full-torsion Galois representation ρ(E1,E2)\rho_{(E_1,E_2)} has maximal image. The size of the image is inversely related to the size of the intersection of various division fields defined by E1E_1 and E2E_2. The representation ρ(E1,E2)\rho_{(E_1,E_2)} has maximal image when these division fields are maximally disjoint, and most of the paper is devoted to studying these intersections.

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@article{arxiv.1507.07423,
  title  = {Elliptic curves with maximally disjoint division fields},
  author = {Harris B. Daniels and Jeffrey Hatley and James Ricci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07423},
  year   = {2017}
}
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