Genus two curves covering elliptic curves: a computational approach

zbMATH Open1120.14023arXiv1209.3187MaRDI QIDQ3593472FDOQ3593472

Authors: Tanush Shaska 

Publication date: 20 July 2007

Abstract: A genus 2 curve $C$ has an elliptic subcover if there exists a degree $n$ maximal covering $psi:CoE$ to an elliptic curve $E$. Degree $n$ elliptic subcovers occur in pairs $(E,E^{\prime })$. The Jacobian $J_C$ of $C$ is isogenous of degree $n^2$ to the product $Eimes{E}^{\prime }$. 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 $E^{\prime }$. 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3187

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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