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Local points on twists of $X(p)$

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Speaker: 
Diana Mocanu
Affiliation: 
MPIM Bonn
Date: 
Thu, 02/07/2026 - 10:45 - 11:20
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
ChaBONNty conference

Let $E$ be a rational elliptic curve and $p$ an odd prime. The modular curve $X_E^{-}(p)$ parametrizes elliptic curves with $p$-torsion modules anti-symplectically isomorphic to $E[p]$. In this talk, I present my recent work with Nuno Freitas on a complete classification for when these curves admit points everywhere locally.
In the second half of the talk, we will see a Diophantine application of this result. More precisely, we use the modular method, together with our classification theorem to prove that certain generalized Fermat equations have no non-trivial, coprime solutions.
 

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