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Singular units and isogenies between CM elliptic curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2021

Yingkun Li*
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse 7, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany li@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
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Abstract

In this note, we will apply the results of Gross–Zagier, Gross–Kohnen–Zagier and their generalizations to give a short proof that the differences of singular moduli are not units. As a consequence, we obtain a result on isogenies between reductions of CM elliptic curves.

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