Sporadic points of odd degree on X₁(N) coming from \mathbb{Q}-curves

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Authors: Abbey Bourdon, Filip Najman 

Publication date: 22 July 2021

Abstract: We say a closed point $x$ on a curve $C$ is sporadic if there are only finitely many points on $C$ of degree at most deg$(x)$. In the case where $C$ is the modular curve $X_1(N)$, most known examples of sporadic points come from elliptic curves with complex multiplication (CM). We seek to understand all sporadic points on $X_1(N)$ corresponding to $mathbbQ$-curves, which are elliptic curves isogenous to their Galois conjugates. This class contains not only all CM elliptic curves, but also any elliptic curve $overlinemathbbQ$-isogenous to one with a rational $j$-invariant, among others. In this paper, we show that all non-CM $mathbbQ$-curves giving rise to a sporadic point of odd degree lie in the $overlinemathbbQ$-isogeny class of the elliptic curve with $j$-invariant $-140625/8$. In addition, we show that a stronger version of this finiteness result would imply Serre's Uniformity Conjecture.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35)

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