Modular curves and Poncelet polygons

DOI10.1007/BF01444875MaRDI QIDQ1318046zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. Pereyra

Publication date 20 June 1994

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/165030

zbMATH Keywords

modular curvePoncelet-polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Elliptic curves (14H52) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Projective analytic geometry (51N15)

Review text

A Poncelet-polygon is a polygon in the projective plane (over \(\mathbb{C})\) with its vertices on one smooth conic while its sides touch another smooth conic. It is well-known that Poncelet-\(n\)-gons are related to \(n\)- torsion elements in elliptic curves. We consider moduli of this situation and obtain a plane model for the modular curve parametrizing elliptic curves with a level-2-structure on an \(n\)-torsion point. Using this plane curve we compute numbers for Poncelet-configurations in a pencil of conics and for pairs of conics which are mutually related by Poncelet- polygons.

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