Polynomial torsion bound conjecture for elliptic curves

Let FF be a number field of degree d=[F:Q]d=[F:\mathbb{Q}], and let E/FE/F be an elliptic curve. Write E(F)[tors]E(F)[\operatorname{tors}] for the subgroup of FF-rational points of finite order. Polynomial torsion bound conjecture. There exist absolute constants c,B>0c,B>0 such that

#E(F)[tors]cdB.\#E(F)[\operatorname{tors}]\leq c\cdot d^{B}.

Merel's theorem gives a uniform bound depending only on dd, but the known bounds are more than exponential in the degree. For CM elliptic curves, a bound of order dloglogdd\log\log d is known; this conjecture asks for a polynomial bound in the non-CM setting as well as in general.

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Primary source

Abbey Bourdon and Tyler Genao, “Uniform polynomial bounds on torsion from rational geometric isogeny classes”, arXiv:2409.08214 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2210.10177.

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