Published July 7, 2025 | Version Published
Journal Article

Families of isogenous elliptic curves ordered by height

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Abstract

Given a family of products of elliptic curves over a rational curve defined over a number field K, and assuming that there exists no isogeny between the pair of elliptic curves in the generic fiber, we establish an upper bound for the number of special fibers with height at most B where the two factors are isogenous. Our proof provides an upper bound that is dependent on K, the family, and the height B. Furthermore, by introducing a slight modification to the definition of the height of the parametrizing family, we prove a uniform bound depends solely on the degree of the family, the field K, and B. Based on the uniformity, and the fact that the idea of using Heath-Brown type bounds on covers and optimizing the cover to count rational points on specific algebraic families has not been exploited much yet, we hope that the paper serves as a good example to illustrate the strengths of the method and will inspire further exploration and application of these techniques in related research.

Copyright and License (English)

© 2025, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. 

Acknowledgement (English)

The author wishes to thank Jordan Ellenberg for many helpful suggestions. Also, the author wants to show her gratitude to Asvin G., Ananth Shankar, and Xiaoheng (Jerry) Wang for the useful conversations and comments on the earlier version of the draft, and Chunhui Liu for pointing out the reference [14] to her which helps sharpen the bound. We thank the referees for the valuable feedback and comments.

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