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Constructing elliptic curves from Galois representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2018

Andrew Snowden
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA email [email protected]://www-personal.umich.edu/∼asnowden/
Jacob Tsimerman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA, Canada email [email protected]://www.math.toronto.edu/∼jacobt/

Abstract

Given a non-isotrivial elliptic curve over an arithmetic surface, one obtains a lisse $\ell$-adic sheaf of rank two over the surface. This lisse sheaf has a number of straightforward properties: cyclotomic determinant, finite ramification, rational traces of Frobenius elements, and somewhere not potentially good reduction. We prove that any lisse sheaf of rank two possessing these properties comes from an elliptic curve.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Authors 2018 

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Footnotes

AS was supported by NSF grants DMS-1303082 and DMS-1453893 and a Sloan Fellowship.

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