Explicit descent interfaces for X₁(13) #
The order-thirteen parameter curve is the genus-two sextic
y² = x⁶ + 2x⁵ + x⁴ + 2x³ + 6x² + 4x + 1.
This file records algebraic inputs to the classical Mazur--Tate
19-isogeny descent which can be checked without a genus-two Jacobian
implementation.
The rational transformation
(x,y) ↦ (-1/(x+1), y/(x+1)³)
preserves the sextic and has cube equal to the hyperelliptic involution. The quotient by its order-three square is the conic
v² = u² + 2u + 5.
We parameterize this conic, identify the cyclic cubic fiber, and
homogenize its square discriminant. The discriminant factor is an
explicit norm in the quadratic order generated by a primitive sixth
root. In that order, 19=(3+2ρ)(5-2ρ); coordinate divisibility
criteria for both primes above 19 are proved below.
We also give an explicit polynomial Pell identity of degrees 19 and
16. It is the algebraic function-field certificate underlying the
order-19 difference of the two rational points at infinity.
The file does not construct the Jacobian, divisor classes, the induced
endomorphism π, fppf cohomology, or the Abel--Jacobi embedding.
Consequently it does not assert rank zero or a classification of
rational points.
The rational order-six symmetry #
The abscissa of the diamond-operator symmetry.
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- MazurTorsion.XOneThirteenDescent.diamondX x = -1 / (x + 1)
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The corresponding ordinate transformation.
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- MazurTorsion.XOneThirteenDescent.diamondY x y = y / (x + 1) ^ 3
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Covariance of the sextic under the fractional-linear abscissa transformation.
The diamond operator preserves the affine sextic away from the
chart boundary x=-1.
At a point with nonzero ordinate, the third iterate is not the identity; together with the preceding formulas this certifies the order-six lift.
Quotient conic and cyclic cubic fiber #
The ordinate invariant for the order-three square.
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- MazurTorsion.XOneThirteenDescent.quotientV x y = y / (x * (x + 1))
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On the sextic, the two invariant functions lie on a rational conic.
The slope recovering the conic parameter away from u=-1.
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- MazurTorsion.XOneThirteenDescent.conicSlope u v = (v - 2) / (u + 1)
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The exceptional quotient fiber u=-1 has no rational abscissa.
The invariant abscissa of a noncuspidal point satisfies its cubic fiber equation.
Product over the three-element abscissa orbit.
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The orbit norm is the cyclic cubic fiber polynomial.
The standard coefficient discriminant of a cubic
a z³+b z²+c z+d.
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Clearing the conic denominator produces clearedFiber.
A root of the parameterized fiber is a root of the cleared cubic.
Homogeneous form of the parameterized cyclic cubic.
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Substitution t=m/n turns the cleared cubic into its homogeneous
form after multiplication by n².
Every noncuspidal rational point on the sextic admits an explicit conic parameter and satisfies the cleared cyclic cubic.
The canonical numerator and denominator of the conic parameter give primitive homogeneous integer data.
The split prime above 19 #
The distinguished primitive sixth root in coordinates.
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Coordinate form of the relation ρ²-ρ+1=0.
The coordinate norm is multiplicative.
The two coordinates of a cube in the sixth-root order. These are exactly the three root factors and trace form occurring in the split cyclic cubic.
Multiplication by the conjugate gives the rational integer norm.
Conjugation preserves the norm.
A prime above 19, represented by π=3+2ρ.
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Its norm is 19.
The conjugate prime is conj(π)=5-2ρ.
Coordinate factorization 19=π·conj(π).
Divisibility by π in sixth-root coordinates.
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A factor of π forces a factor of 19 in the norm.
The same norm consequence for conj(π).
Conversely, every factor of 19 in a sixth-root norm comes from
one of the two primes above 19.
The homogeneous discriminant as a split norm #
The homogeneous discriminant factor is a sixth-root norm.
The rational and integral presentations of the homogeneous discriminant agree under coercion.
The primitive parameter norm is oriented away from conj(π), not
merely away from simultaneous divisibility by the two primes over 19.
The conjugate branch is an anisotropic binary quadratic form modulo 19.
For primitive integer parameters, the discriminant norm coordinate
cannot be divisible by both primes above 19.
Rational-root divisibility and the primitive norm equation #
If a primitive rational number a/b is a root of the homogeneous
cyclic cubic, then the three pairwise-coprime cusp factors in its
Möbius orbit divide the leading coefficient together.
Equating the parameter and orbit presentations of the cyclic-cubic discriminant gives an integral norm equation.
Dividing by the nonzero product of the cusp factors turns the discriminant identity into a square times an Eisenstein norm cube.
Once the leading coefficient has been divided by the three cusp factors, the invariant equality determines the other two coefficients of the split cyclic cubic.
In any primitive split fiber, the root coordinate is oriented away
from the conjugate prime above 19. Cubing preserves conjugate-prime
divisibility, while the two coefficient identities identify that cube,
up to the rational integer k, with the primitive parameter norm.
Primitive split-fiber parameters are odd. Modulo two, every other primitive parameter class gives a cyclic cubic without a root.
The leading and trace parameter forms have resultant four.
For a primitive split fiber, the remaining quotient divides four and has exact two-adic valuation two.
The quotient of a primitive split cyclic cubic is exactly 4 up
to sign.
The complete explicit descent data obtained from a noncuspidal rational point. It includes primitive coordinates for both quotient and fiber parameters, the exact leading-coefficient quotient, and the resulting square-times-cube norm equation.
The original primitive conic-parameter package, retained as a stable projection of the stronger split-cubic descent data.
The residual integral statement after quotienting by the diamond symmetry and applying rational-root divisibility.
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The two-case integral boundary left after comparing all coefficients
of the split cubic. The quotient is -4 or 4; rational-function
equalities have become integral identities, while canonical denominator
positivity and the two cusp exclusions remain explicit.
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A one-sign, one-chamber form of the split-cubic boundary. Both root
coordinates are positive, the quotient is 4, and the root coordinate is
oriented away from the conjugate prime over 19. The diamond orbit has a
unique positive rational abscissa, so no noncuspidal root is lost. The final
parameter split-prime condition from FiniteSplitCyclicCubicObstruction is
omitted because it already follows from primitivity of m,n.
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It suffices to discharge the k=4 split-cubic family. For k=-4,
oddness makes m nonzero, and one of (-n,m) or (n,-m) has positive
second coordinate. Both substitutions negate all three quadratic
coefficients and preserve the quartic discriminant.
The finite split-coefficient boundary implies the primitive rational-root obstruction.
The primitive cyclic-cubic obstruction excludes every noncuspidal
rational point on the X₁(13) sextic.
A proof of the explicit primitive obstruction rules out exact rational order thirteen through the checked Tate-normal-form reduction.
The two-case integral split obstruction excludes exact rational order thirteen through the checked primitive descent.
The normalized one-sign split obstruction is already a complete downstream input for excluding exact rational order thirteen.
A degree-19 polynomial Pell certificate #
Degree-19 numerator in the polynomial Pell solution.
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Degree-16 denominator in the polynomial Pell solution.
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On the curve, the two conjugate Pell functions multiply to the
constant -4; in particular, they are units on the affine chart.
Values of the sextic and Pell solution at the four affine rational cusp points.
Reversal of the degree-19 Pell numerator.
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Reversal of the degree-16 Pell denominator.
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The reciprocal chart formula for the sextic.
Reciprocal chart formula for the degree-19 Pell numerator.
Reciprocal chart formula for the degree-16 Pell denominator.
Reversed Pell identity. Its right side records total vanishing
order 38, the algebraic precursor of a divisor difference of order
19 between the two infinity branches.
Factorization on the normalized infinity chart η²=F∞(z).
Values of the reversed Pell data at the two normalized infinity directions.
The exact two-prime Jacobian boundary #
An equivalence from actual finite Picard/Jacobian point types to the
checked reduced degree-two certificates would identify both finite groups as
having order 19.
This theorem is deliberately an interface boundary: it consumes genuine equivalences, rather than treating the combinatorial certificates as Jacobians.
A genuine additive identification of a finite Picard group with the
reduced 𝔽₃ divisor certificate immediately gives its cyclic
ZMod 19 presentation.
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The corresponding cyclic presentation from the 𝔽₅ certificate.
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The arithmetic endpoint of the two-good-reduction argument for the rational Jacobian.
For a finite rational Jacobian JQ, good reduction at 3 and 5 should
produce the first two divisibilities: their extra factors are precisely the
possible primary kernels at the residue characteristics. A nonzero divisor
class of exact order 19, obtained from the Pell certificate, produces the
last divisibility. The checked finite-field class certificates then force
#JQ = 19.
What remains outside this theorem is geometric and global: constructing the smooth proper genus-two curve and its Picard/Jacobian, identifying its finite Picard groups with the two certificate types, proving Mordell--Weil rank zero, and proving the two reduction-kernel bounds.
The same rational-Jacobian endpoint, now in the form directly consumed
by geometric reduction maps. The hypotheses require additive
identifications of both finite Picard groups with the checked certificates
and reduction homomorphisms whose kernels have 3-power and 5-power
cardinality. Together with the Pell-supplied order-19 subgroup, these data
force the rational Jacobian to have cardinality 19; cyclicity then follows
from the standard prime-order group theorem.
Once a divisor implementation turns the Pell identity into
19 • D = 0, distinctness of the two infinity branches is the only
remaining group-theoretic input needed to certify exact order 19.