the Grössencharacter associated to a CM elliptic curve
Let be a quadratic imaginary field and let be anelliptic curve defined over a number field
(such that), with complex multiplication
by . The so-called‘Main Theorem of Complex Multiplication’ ([2], Thm. 8.2)implies the existence of a Grössencharacter of , associated to thecurve satisfying several interesting properties which wecollect in the following statement.
Theorem ([2], Thm. 9.1, Prop. 10.4, Cor. 10.4.1).
Let be a prime of of good reduction for, i.e. the reduction of modulo issmooth. There exists a Grössencharacter of ,, such that:
- 1.
is unramified at a prime of if and only if has good reduction at ;
- 2.
belongs to , thus multiplicationby is a well defined endomorphism
of .Moreover ;
- 3.
the following diagram is commutative
where be the-power Frobenius map
and the vertical maps arereduction mod ;
- 4.
let be the number ofpoints in over the finite field
and put . Then
- 5.
(due to Deuring) let be the -functionassociated to the elliptic curve . If then. If, and , then .
In particular, if then is defined over (actually,it may be defined over ), is a generatorof (by part (2), and the explicit generator can be pinneddown using part (4)). Thus, if is the number of roots of unity
in , then where is any generator of . Also, by part (5),.
References
- 1 J. H. Silverman, The Arithmetic ofElliptic Curves, Springer-Verlag, New York.
- 2 J. H. Silverman, Advanced Topics inthe Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves. Springer-Verlag, New York,1994.