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Division fields of elliptic curves with minimal ramification
Author(s) -
Álvaro LozanoRobledo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
revista matemática iberoamericana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.569
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2235-0616
pISSN - 0213-2230
DOI - 10.4171/rmi/870
Subject(s) - ramification , division (mathematics) , mathematics , elliptic curve , pure mathematics , arithmetic
Let E be an elliptic curve defined over Q, let p be a prime number, and let n≥1. It is well-known that the pnpn-th division field Q(E[pn]) of the elliptic curve E contains all the pn-th roots of unity. It follows that the Galois extension Q(E[pn])/Q is ramified above p, and the ramification index e(p,Q(E[pn])/Q) of any prime P of Q(E[pn]) lying above pp is divisible by φ(pn). The goal of this article is to construct elliptic curves E/Q such that e(p,Q(E[pn])/Q) is precisely φ(pn), and such that the Galois group of Q(E[pn])/Q is as large as possible, i.e., isomorphic to GL(2,Z/pnZ).

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