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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Quadratic Chabauty is a method to explicitly compute the rational points on certain modular curves of genus at least 2. The current algorithm, due to Balakrishnan-Dogra-Müller-Tuitman-Vonk, requires as an input an explicit plane model of the curve. The coefficients of such models grow rapidly with the genus of the curve and so are inefficient to compute with when the genus is at least 7. Therefore, we would like to replace this input with certain modular forms associated to the curve, hence creating a 'model-free' algorithm. In this talk I will provide an overview of an algorithm to compute the first stage of quadratic Chabauty on Atkin-Lehner quotients of modular curves using weakly holomorphic modular forms.

Further information

Time:

02Dec
Dec 2nd 2025
14:30 to 15:30

Venue:

MR13

Speaker:

Isabel Rendell (LSGNT)

Series:

Number Theory Seminar