Genus two curves covering elliptic curves: a computational approach

Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Automorphisms of curves (14H37)

Abstract: A genus 2 curve

C

has an elliptic subcover if there exists a degree

n

maximal covering

p s i : C o E

to an elliptic curve

E

. Degree

n

elliptic subcovers occur in pairs

(E, E^{'})

. The Jacobian

J_{C}

of

C

is isogenous of degree

n^{2}

to the product

E i m e s E^{'}

. We say that

J_{C}

is

(n, n)

-split. The locus of

C

, denoted by

L_{n}

, is an algebraic subvariety of the moduli space

M_{2}

. The space

L_{2}

was studied in Shaska/V"olklein and Gaudry/Schost. The space

L_{3}

was studied in Shaska (2004) were an algebraic description was given as sublocus of

M_{2}

. In this survey we give a brief description of the spaces

L_{n}

for a general

n

and then focus on small

n

. We describe some of the computational details which were skipped in Shaska/V"olklein and Shaska (2004). Further we explicitly describe the relation between the elliptic subcovers

E

and

E^{'}

. We have implemented most of these relations in computer programs which check easily whether a genus 2 curve has

(2, 2)

or

(3, 3)

split Jacobian. In each case the elliptic subcovers can be explicitly computed.

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