The intrinsic subgroup of an elliptic curve and Mazur's torsion theorem

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Hauptverfasser: Yamazaki, Takao, Yang, Yifan, Yoo, Hwajong, Yu, Myungjun
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author Yamazaki, Takao
Yang, Yifan
Yoo, Hwajong
Yu, Myungjun
author_facet Yamazaki, Takao
Yang, Yifan
Yoo, Hwajong
Yu, Myungjun
contents We define and study a biadditive symmetric (not necessarily perfect) pairing on the torsion part $\mathrm{Pic}(X)_{\mathrm{tors}}$ of the Picard group of a smooth projective curve $X$ over a field $k$ with values in $k^\times \otimes \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. We call its kernel the intrinsic subgroup of $X$. It turns out that some information on the reduction type of $X$ can be read off from the intrinsic subgroup. Mazur's torsion theorem says that there are exactly 15 isomorphism classes of abelian groups that appear as the rational torsion points of an elliptic curve $X$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ (identified with $\mathrm{Pic}(X)_{\mathrm{tors}}$). We refine this result by determining which subgroups of those 15 groups appear as the intrinsic subgroups.
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spellingShingle The intrinsic subgroup of an elliptic curve and Mazur's torsion theorem
Yamazaki, Takao
Yang, Yifan
Yoo, Hwajong
Yu, Myungjun
Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
11G05, 11G18, 14G25, 14G35
We define and study a biadditive symmetric (not necessarily perfect) pairing on the torsion part $\mathrm{Pic}(X)_{\mathrm{tors}}$ of the Picard group of a smooth projective curve $X$ over a field $k$ with values in $k^\times \otimes \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. We call its kernel the intrinsic subgroup of $X$. It turns out that some information on the reduction type of $X$ can be read off from the intrinsic subgroup. Mazur's torsion theorem says that there are exactly 15 isomorphism classes of abelian groups that appear as the rational torsion points of an elliptic curve $X$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ (identified with $\mathrm{Pic}(X)_{\mathrm{tors}}$). We refine this result by determining which subgroups of those 15 groups appear as the intrinsic subgroups.
title The intrinsic subgroup of an elliptic curve and Mazur's torsion theorem
topic Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
11G05, 11G18, 14G25, 14G35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00787