Ranks of elliptic curves with prescribed torsion over number fields
Johan Bosman, Peter Bruin, Andrej Dujella, Filip Najman

TL;DR
This paper investigates the possible ranks of elliptic curves with prescribed torsion over quadratic, cubic, and quartic number fields, revealing new examples and structural properties, including phenomena like false complex multiplication.
Contribution
It establishes the existence of elliptic curves with specific torsion and rank properties over low-degree number fields, and introduces the concept of false complex multiplication affecting rank parity.
Findings
Elliptic curves with certain torsion groups can have both rank 0 and positive rank over quadratic fields.
Existence of elliptic curves with positive rank and prescribed torsion in many previously unknown cases.
Elliptic curves with points of order 13, 18, or 22 over quadratic and quartic fields are isogenous to Galois conjugates and have even rank.
Abstract
We study the structure of the Mordell--Weil group of elliptic curves over number fields of degree 2, 3, and 4. We show that if is a group, then either the class of all elliptic curves over quadratic fields with torsion subgroup is empty, or it contains curves of rank~0 as well as curves of positive rank. We prove a similar but slightly weaker result for cubic and quartic fields. On the other hand, we find a group and a quartic field such that among the elliptic curves over with torsion subgroup , there are curves of positive rank, but none of rank~0. We find examples of elliptic curves with positive rank and given torsion in many previously unknown cases. We also prove that all elliptic curves over quadratic fields with a point of order 13 or 18 and all elliptic curves over quartic fields with a point of order 22 are isogenous to one of their Galois conjugates…
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