Proving that a genus 2 curve has complex multiplication
Authors:
Paul van Wamelen.
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of South Africa, P. O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0003, South Africa
Abstract:
Recently examples of genus 2 curves defined over the rationals were found which, conjecturally, should have complex multiplication. We prove this conjecture. This involves computing an explicit representation of a rational map defining complex multiplication.