Galois theory, discriminants and torsion subgroup of elliptic curves

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2009.11.001zbMATH Open1268.11076arXiv0811.1463OpenAlexW2006501591MaRDI QIDQ2268580FDOQ2268580

Authors: Irene García-Selfa, Enrique González-Jiménez, José María Tornero 

Publication date: 8 March 2010

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We find a tight relationship between the torsion subgroup and the image of the mod 2 Galois representation associated to an elliptic curve defined over the rationals. This is shown using some characterizations for the squareness of the discriminant of the elliptic curve.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1463

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05)

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Uses Software

• Magma
• SageMath
• ecdata

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