Non-Cyclic Subgroups of Jacobians of Genus Two Curves

MaRDI QIDQ6208148zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Robenhagen Ravnshøj

Publication date 18 January 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Algebraic coding theory; cryptography (number-theoretic aspects) (11T71) Applications to coding theory and cryptography of arithmetic geometry (14G50) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

Abstract: Let E be an elliptic curve defined over a finite field. Balasubramanian and Koblitz have proved that if the l-th roots of unity m_l is not contained in the ground field, then a field extension of the ground field contains m_l if and only if the l-torsion points of E are rational over the same field extension. We generalize this result to Jacobians of genus two curves. In particular, we show that the Weil- and the Tate-pairing are non-degenerate over the same field extension of the ground field. From this generalization we get a complete description of the l-torsion subgroups of Jacobians of supersingular genus two curves. In particular, we show that for l>3, the l-torsion points are rational over a field extension of degree at most 24.

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