Density of odd order reductions for elliptic curves with a rational point of order 2

DOI10.1142/S1793042119500891MaRDI QIDQ5232170zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Ke Liang, Jeremy Rouse

Publication date 30 August 2019

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10583

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curveChebotarev density theoremnatural densityarboreal Galois representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois representations (11F80) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05)

Abstract: Suppose that $E/mathbbQ$ is an elliptic curve with a rational point $T$ of order $2$ and $alphainE(mathbbQ)$ is a point of infinite order. We consider the problem of determining the density of primes $p$ for which $alphainE(mathbb{F}_p)$ has odd order. This density is determined by the image of the arboreal Galois representation $a{u}_{E,2^k}:mGal(overlinemathbbQ/mathbbQ)o{mAGL}_2(mathbbZ/2^{k}mathbbZ)$. Assuming that $alpha$ is primitive (that is, neither $alpha$ nor $alpha+T$ is twice a point over $mathbbQ$) and that the image of the ordinary mod $2^k$ Galois representation is as large as possible (subject to $E$ having a rational point of order $2$), we determine that there are $63$ possibilities for the image of $a{u}_{E,2^k}$. As a consequence, the density of primes $p$ for which the order of $alpha$ is odd is between $1/14$ and $89/168$.

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