Frobenius distribution for pairs of elliptic curves

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
François Charles
Speaker affiliation: 
Université de Rennes/MIT
Event description: 

We will discuss a proof of the following result: let $E$ and $E’$ be two elliptic curves over a number field. Then there exist infinitely many primes $p$ such that the reductions mod $p$ of $E$ and $E’$ are geometrically isogenous. This result was previously known in the function field case, and can be seen as a partial analog of a density criterion for Hodge loci due to M. Green. It is related to the distribution of the traces of the Frobenius morphism.