Global methods for the symplectic type of congruences between elliptic curves
John E. Cremona
University of Warwick, Coventry, UKNuno Freitas
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract
We describe a systematic investigation into the existence of congruences between the mod torsion modules of elliptic curves defined over , including methods to determine the symplectic type of such congruences. We classify the existence and symplectic type of mod congruences between twisted elliptic curves over number fields, giving global symplectic criteria that apply in situations where the available local methods may fail. We report on the results of applying our methods for all primes to the elliptic curves in the LMFDB database, which currently includes all elliptic curves of conductor less than . We also show that while such congruences exist for each , there are none for in the database, in line with a strong form of the Frey–Mazur conjecture.
Cite this article
John E. Cremona, Nuno Freitas, Global methods for the symplectic type of congruences between elliptic curves. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 38 (2022), no. 1, pp. 1–32
DOI 10.4171/RMI/1269