Quadratic points on modular curves $X_0(N)$ for $N\le 100$

Abstract

We determine the quadratic points on the modular curves $X_0(N)$ for $N\le 100$ for which this has not been previously done, namely the cases $$N\in \{66,70,78,82,84,86,87,88,90,96,99\}.$$ We accomplish this by improving on the ``going down method," which uses the fact that we have a moduli description of all the (infinitely many) quadratic points on $X_0(n)$ for some divisor $n$ of $N$.

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