Noam Elkies (Harvard) and Matthew Greenberg (University of Calgary): Mod p representations associated to elliptic curves
Background reading:
Silverman, "The arithmetic of elliptic curves", Chapters 3 and 7
Diamond and Shurman, "A first course in modular forms, Chapter 9
Neukirch, "Algebraic number theory", Chapter 2, Section 10 and Chapter 5, Section 6
Ribet and Stein, "Lectures on Serre's conjecture", Chapter 1, see http://wstein.org/papers/serre/
Final presentation, Friday 02.07.2010
See http://wiki.sagemath.org/days22/greenberg/presentation
Status report, Monday 28.06.2010
See http://wiki.sagemath.org/days22/greenberg/june282010
A. Find the elliptic curve that modular mod-p representations come from, for p < 7
People: William Stein, Mike Lipnowski, Sam Lichtenstein, Ben Linowitz, Laura Peskin, David Ai, Rodney Keaton, M. Tip, Brandon Levin
(24.06.2010 update)
Attached are some text files giving some data about the minimal conductor < 10,000 for an elliptic curve realizing a mod 2, 3, or 5 representation attached to a newform of level < 150. -Sam
norm2cond10000 norm3cond10000 norm5cond10000
B. S_4-extensions: find the curves
People: Brandon Levin, Mike Lipnowski, Gagan Sekhon, Noam Elkies, Jon Cass, David Ai
C. Mod-7 galreps from abvars of prime level not arising from elliptic curves
People: Laura Peskin, M. Tip, Arijit, Rebecca, Mike D, Noam
(24.06.2010 update)
Level 29 gives an example. Using the Hasse bound we see that a2 is -2,-1,0,1,2, so a2 mod 7 is 0,1,2,5,6. Thus one of the level 29 forms doesn't come from an elliptic curve.
D. Prime powers for small primes
People: Ben Linowitz, Sam Lichtenstein, Gagan, Chris Wuthrich, Barinder, Hatice
(24.06.2010 update)
Gagan reports that the Galois representations associated to 121A and 121C are surjective mod 2 but not mod 4.
Status report, Monday 30.06.2010
See http://wiki.sagemath.org/GaganSekhon
There is only one conjugacy class of subgroups of GL(2,Z/9) which surjects onto (Z/9Z)* under the determinant map and reduces onto GL(2,Z/3). It is of size 144=3*#GL(2,Z/3). So Elkies' analysis of "3 not 9" pins down the image of Galois completely.
Misc
A program for finding certain integral modular symbols that Matt G. wanted: http://nt.sagenb.org/home/pub/13/
All of the code Ben Linowitz produced during the conference: Sage worksheet (sws)
All the code and data that William Stein computed when making a big table of newforms: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/db/modsym-2010
William's improvements to reduction mod primes code in sage: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9400