Infinitely many rational elliptic curves with 2-torsion over quadratic fields

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Let pp be a prime satisfying

p11,19(mod20).p\equiv 11,19\pmod{20}.

For an elliptic curve E/QE/\mathbb Q, write E(Q(p))torsE(\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-p}))_{\mathrm{tors}} for its torsion subgroup over Q(p)\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-p}). Existence conjecture. There exist infinitely many elliptic curves E/QE/\mathbb Q such that

E(Q(p))torsZ/2Z×Z/10Z.E(\mathbb Q(\sqrt{-p}))_{\mathrm{tors}}\cong \mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z\times\mathbb Z/10\mathbb Z.

This is one of the open questions left by the paper concerning prescribed torsion subgroups of rational elliptic curves over quadratic fields; the paper proves related non-existence results and establishes the asserted infinitude conditionally on finiteness of the 22-primary part of the Tate–Shafarevich group.

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Primary source

Omer Avci, “Existence and non-existence of rational elliptic curves with prescribed torsion subgroups over quadratic fields”, arXiv:2602.07723 (2026).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2201.03452, arXiv:1601.05032, arXiv:1301.6999, arXiv:1201.6629, arXiv:1009.5389.

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