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Hugo Chapdelaine
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Fields generated by torsion points of CM elliptic curves

I'm using the same setup as Corollary 1.7 on p. 44 of de Shalit manuscript (Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves with complex multiplication).

I think there is a mistake in his Corollary 1.7 and I'm wondering if it is possible to fix it. So let $E/F$ be an elliptic curve defined over a number field $F$ such that

(1) $E$ has complex multiplication by $\mathcal{O}_K$,

(2) $F(E_{tor})$ is abelian over $K$.

In particular, it follows from (2) that $K(1)\subseteq F$, where $K(1)$ stands for the Hilbert class field of $K$. Let $\mathfrak{f}$ be the conductor of the Groessencharacter associated to $E/F$ (which depends just on the $F$-isogeny class of $E$).

For an integral ideal $\mathfrak{m}\subseteq\mathcal{O}_K$, we let

(a) $F[\mathfrak{m}]=F(E[\mathfrak{m}])$

(b) $F(\mathfrak{m})=F(x(P):P\in E[\mathfrak{m}])$

It is easy to see that $[L[\mathfrak{m}]:L(\mathfrak{m})]\leq 2$ and that we have an injection

$\theta_{\mathfrak{m}}:Gal(F[\mathfrak{m}]/F)\hookrightarrow (\mathcal{O}_K/\mathfrak{m})^{\times}$.

Let $\mathfrak{g}\subseteq\mathcal{O}_K$ be another ideal and let us assume that $(\mathfrak{m},\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{f})=1$. Then de Shalit claims the following:

(c) $\theta$ is surjective

(d) $F[\mathfrak{m}]$ is linearly disjoint from $F[\mathfrak{g}]$.

In general, I don't see why $\theta_{\mathfrak{m}}$ is surjective, since in one of his computations, he forgets the contribution coming from the roots of unity of $K$. Moreover, if we take into account this omission, it seems to me that we only obtain that $F(\mathfrak{m})$ and $F(\mathfrak{g})$ are linearly disjoint over $F$.

Q1 Are (c) and (d) still true ?

There seems also to be something wrong with his proposition 1.6, since it seems to me that one could assume from the outset that $F$ contains the coordinates of the points $E[\mathfrak{m}]$ without changing the assumptions (1) and (2) above (but may his proposition is correct if $F=K(1)$).

Here is one related question to the previous paragraph which I don't know the answer:

Q2 Let us assume that $F=K(1)$. Then we know from CM theory that $F(\mathfrak{m})$ corresponds to the ray class field of $K$ of modulus $\mathfrak{m}$. Let us assume that $[F[\mathfrak{m}]:F(\mathfrak{m})]=2$. What is the conductor of the abelian extension $F[\mathfrak{m}]/K$ (in particular this conductor must be divisible by $\mathfrak{m}$) ?

Hugo Chapdelaine
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