Number Theory Seminar

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Date, time & place Wednesday 17:00 - 18:00 117Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) Naoki Imai, Shane Kelly

2008/10/22

16:30-17:30   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pierre Parent (Universite Bordeaux 1)
Serre's uniformity in the split Cartan case
[ Abstract ]
We show that, for large enough prime number p, the modular curve
X_{split}(p) has no other point with values in Q than CM points and the rational cusp. This gives a partial answer to an old question of J.-P. Serre concerning the uniform surjectivity of Galois representations associated to torsion points on elliptic curves without complex multiplication.
(Joint work with Yuri Bilu.)