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Title: Rational points on hyperelliptic Atkin-Lehner quotients of modular curves and their coverings
Abstract

We complete the computation of all$$\mathbb {Q}$$Q-rational points on all the 64 maximal Atkin-Lehner quotients$$X_0(N)^*$$X0(N)such that the quotient is hyperelliptic. To achieve this, we use a combination of various methods, namely the classical Chabauty–Coleman, elliptic curve Chabauty, quadratic Chabauty, and the bielliptic quadratic Chabauty method (from a forthcoming preprint of the fourth-named author) combined with the Mordell-Weil sieve. Additionally, for square-free levelsN, we classify all$$\mathbb {Q}$$Q-rational points as cusps, CM points (including their CM field andj-invariants) and exceptional ones. We further indicate how to use this to compute the$$\mathbb {Q}$$Q-rational points on all of their modular coverings.

 
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Award ID(s):
1945452 1946311
NSF-PAR ID:
10373621
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Springer Science + Business Media
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Research in Number Theory
Volume:
8
Issue:
4
ISSN:
2522-0160
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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