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Timeline for Geometric decomposition of J(11)

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May 4, 2023 at 20:25 history edited LSpice CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 2, 2010 at 19:40 comment added François Brunault I think the reason is that two distinct isogeny classes of elliptic curves over $\mathbf{Q}$ can be isomorphic over $\mathbf{C}$. Using Pari/GP I found that $11A \cong 121D$ and $121A \cong 121C$ over $\mathbf{C}$. Since $J_0^{\mathrm{new}}(121) \sim 121A \times 121B \times 121C \times 121D$ over $\mathbf{Q}$, your guess is exact!
Oct 2, 2010 at 15:17 comment added François Brunault Thanks for the details on the fibered product. I agree that $J_1(N)$ is a factor of $J(N)$, but I am a little bit confused about $J_0(N^2)$ because for $N=11$ not all elliptic curves of conductor $121$ appear in $J(11)$. Maybe this is because we are looking things over $\mathbf{C}$ and not over $\mathbf{Q}$ ?
Oct 1, 2010 at 0:54 history edited Soroosh CC BY-SA 2.5
A one line explanation on why the fiber product is biration to X(N)
Oct 1, 2010 at 0:49 vote accept Soroosh
Sep 30, 2010 at 1:32 comment added François Brunault Could you give some details on how you get $X_{\mu}(N)$ as a fibered product ?
Sep 29, 2010 at 22:09 answer added François Brunault timeline score: 9
Sep 29, 2010 at 21:10 comment added Soroosh Also, I'm mostly interested in this geometrically. So, I want to know the simple isogeny factors over C.
Sep 29, 2010 at 19:39 comment added Soroosh You are definitely right. I meant X(N) to be the twisted full level N structure, and I changed the wording to reflect that. On the other hand, I think the fiber product is actually smooth at the cusps, since the covering of X_0(N) by X_1(N) is unramified at the cusps. I think for primes N larger than 5, that is an actual isomorphism. I also agree with you that representation theory is probably better than geometry for this type of problems. However, I was trying to figure out what's happening geometrically, and there seems to be something there.
Sep 29, 2010 at 19:29 history edited Soroosh CC BY-SA 2.5
Fixed the minor mistakes pointed out by BConrad
Sep 28, 2010 at 14:07 answer added William Stein timeline score: 5
Sep 28, 2010 at 1:50 comment added BCnrd The curve $X(N)$ in its standard definition as a moduli space is not geometrically connected over $\mathbf{Q}$). You must mean to use the variant $X_{\mu}(N)$ classifying "twisted" full level-$N$ structures of type $\mathbf{Z}/(N) \times \mu_N$ as symplectic spaces? And are you interested in the simple isogeny factors over $\mathbf{Q}$, or working geometrically (which might come to the same thing, but only after the fact)? Also, the "fiber product" description looks non-smooth near the cusps. It is at best birational, no? Anyway, representation theory should be better than geometry here.
Sep 28, 2010 at 1:10 history asked Soroosh CC BY-SA 2.5