Serre curves relative to obstructions modulo 2

Publication date: 12 October 2022

Abstract: We consider elliptic curves

E / m a t h b b Q

for which the image of the adelic Galois representation

h o_{E}

is as large as possible given a constraint on the image modulo 2. For such curves, we give a characterization in terms of their

e l l

-adic images, compute all examples of conductor at most 500,000, precisely describe the image of

h o_{E}

, and offer an application to the cyclicity problem. In this way, we generalize some foundational results on Serre curves.

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