An Improved Bound Towards a Conjecture of Serre on Surjective Galois Representations

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Larry Rolen

Publication date: 22 February 2011

Abstract: Suppose that $E$ is an elliptic curve defined over $mathbbQ$ without complex multiplication and with conductor $N$. For each positive integer $m$, the action of the absolute Galois group $$ on the torsion points over $$ gives rise to a representation of $G_{m}athbbQ$. A celebrated paper of Serre shows that this representation is surjective for all sufficiently large primes; the other primes are termed emph{exceptional}. Serre conjectures that there are no exceptional primes $ell>37$ for any non CM elliptic curve over $mathbbQ$. The best result in this direction is due to Cojocaru, who proves that the largest exceptional prime $el{l}_{0}l{l}_{epsilon}{N}^{1+epsilon}$. In this paper we lower the exponent on the bound to obtain $$, where $N_0$ is the product of primes of bad reduction. If $E$ has no places of multiplicative reduction, then we have $$. Assuming the Frey-Szpiro conjecture, we have that $$ in general. Our main methods include the Rankin-Selberg method and the classical work on distribution of quadratic residues.

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