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Will Chen
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examples of "exotic" moduli problems for elliptic curves?

Let $\textbf{Ell}$ be the category of elliptic curves over various base schemes, and where a morphism between $E\rightarrow S$ and $E'\rightarrow S'$ is a cartesian diagram with those two maps as columns.

A moduli problem for elliptic curves is then just a contravariant functor $\textbf{Ell}\rightarrow\textbf{Sets}$.

For example, we usual level $N$ moduli problem is the functor sending $E/S$ to the set of isomorphisms $E[N]\stackrel{\sim}{\longrightarrow}(\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})_S^2$.

There are a ton of these functors, mostly coming from various cohomology theories, but the only such functors I can think of that land in the category of finite sets all have to do with torsion points on the elliptic curve.

Does anyone have any examples of a contravariant functor $F:\textbf{Ell}\rightarrow\textbf{Sets}$ such that for $E/S$ with $S$ connected, $F(E/S)$ is finite, and doesn't have to do with torsion data?

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