The one-prime coincidence conjecture for vanishing elliptic-curve constants

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Let E\mathcal{E} be a non-CM elliptic curve over Q\mathbb{Q}, let jj be a positive integer, and let CE,j\mathcal{C}_{\mathcal{E},j} denote the constant considered in the paper. A pp-coincidence is an equality of division fields

Q(E[j])=Q(E[pj])\mathbb{Q}(\mathcal{E}[j])=\mathbb{Q}(\mathcal{E}[pj])

for a prime pp. The one-prime coincidence conjecture. If CE,j=0\mathcal{C}_{\mathcal{E},j}=0, then there exists a prime pp such that

Q(E[j])=Q(E[pj]).\mathbb{Q}(\mathcal{E}[j])=\mathbb{Q}(\mathcal{E}[pj]).

The preceding corollary proves the converse implication: any such coincidence forces CE,j=0\mathcal{C}_{\mathcal{E},j}=0. Thus the conjecture predicts that, for non-CM elliptic curves, all vanishing cases arise from a one-prime coincidence; the statement is based on numerical evidence.

References

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Alexander Milner and Jack Shotton, “The Smallest Invariant Factor of Elliptic Curves, and Coincidences”, arXiv:2604.21601 (2026).

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