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Ramification in Division Fields and Sporadic Points on Modular Curves

Number Theory 2021-10-19 v4

Abstract

Consider an elliptic curve EE over a number field KK. Suppose that EE has supersingular reduction at some prime p\mathfrak{p} of KK lying above the rational prime pp. We completely classify the valuations of the pnp^n-torsion points of EE by the valuation of a coefficient of the pthp^{\text{th}} division polynomial. We apply this description to find the minimum necessary ramification at p\mathfrak{p} in order for EE to have a point of exact order pnp^n. Using this bound we show that sporadic points on the modular curve X1(pn)X_1(p^n) cannot correspond to supersingular elliptic curves without a canonical subgroup. We generalize our methods to X1(N)X_1(N) with NN composite.

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@article{arxiv.1810.04809,
  title  = {Ramification in Division Fields and Sporadic Points on Modular Curves},
  author = {Hanson Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04809},
  year   = {2021}
}

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19 pages. Minor revisions. Comments are welcome!

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