Groups of generalized $G$-type and applications to torsion subgroups of rational elliptic curves over infinite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$

Abstract

Recently there has been much interest in studying the torsion subgroups of elliptic curves base-extended to infinite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$. In this paper, given a finite group $G$, we study what happens with the torsion of an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ when changing base to the compositum of all number fields with Galois group $G$. We do this by studying a group theoretic condition called generalized $G$-type, which is a necessary condition for a number field with Galois group $H$ to be contained in that compositum. In general, group theory allows one to reduce the original problem to the question of finding rational points on finitely many modular curves. To illustrate this method we completely determine which torsion structures occur for elliptic curves defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ and base-changed to the compositum of all fields whose Galois group is $A_4$.

arXiv commentto appear in Transactions of the London Mathematical Society

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• Torsion groups of elliptic curves over the ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$