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Minimal degree of an isogeny between a supersingular elliptic curve and its conjugate

Jul 2026 · 3 citations · ⚡ 1 influential · 16 references
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Let $E$ be a supersingular elliptic curve defined over $\bar{\mathbb{F}}_p$ and $E^{(p)}$ be its conjugate. We give a bound on the minimal degree of an isogeny from $E$ to $E^{(p)}$ depending on $p$, and show that this bound is both asymptotically optimal as well as sharp in many cases. This bound is obtained by developing a new technique to compute the degree of certain isogenies from a supersingular elliptic curve to its conjugate, and we present extensive computations of the successive minima of the lattice containing these isogenies. Following this, we give several conjectures supported by the data we have obtained, including some on the set of primes $p$ for which the bound we give in this article is attained.

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