Elliptic curves over a finite field and the trace formula

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12069MaRDI QIDQ4600975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan Kaplan, Ian Petrow

Publication date 18 January 2018

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03980

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvespower momentsSelberg trace formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral theory; trace formulas (e.g., that of Selberg) (11F72) Hecke-Petersson operators, differential operators (one variable) (11F25) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Elliptic curves (14H52)

Abstract: We prove formulas for power moments for point counts of elliptic curves over a finite field $k$ such that the groups of $k$-points of the curves contain a chosen subgroup. These formulas express the moments in terms of traces of Hecke operators for certain congruence subgroups of $operatorname{SL}_2(mathbbZ)$. As our main technical input we prove an Eichler-Selberg trace formula for a family of congruence subgroups of $operatorname{SL}_2(mathbbZ)$ which include as special cases the groups $Gamm{a}_1(N)$ and $Gamma(N)$. Our formulas generalize results of Birch and Ihara (the case of the trivial subgroup, and the full modular group), and previous work of the authors (the subgroups $mathbbZ/2mathbbZ$ and $(mathbbZ/2mathbbZ{)}^2$ and congruence subgroups $Gamm{a}_0(2),Gamm{a}_0(4)$). We use these formulas to answer statistical questions about point counts for elliptic curves over a fixed finite field, generalizing results of Vlv{a}duc{t}, Gekeler, Howe, and others.

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