The level-seven modular correspondence has no noncuspidal rational point #
The symmetric bidegree-(7,7) polynomial G obtained by removing the
diagonal from the level-seven hauptmodul modular equation is a plane
model of X₀(49). An explicit rational map, discovered by exact
q-expansion fits and verified here purely algebraically, sends every
rational solution with s·B ≠ 0 to an affine rational point of the
X₀(49) Weierstrass model y² = x(x² + 21x + 112) whose abscissa is
nonzero. The complete two-isogeny descent proved that the only rational
points of that model are 0 and (0,0), so no such solution exists:
the affine curve G = 0 has no rational point outside the singular
cusp image (0,0).
The affine level-seven modular correspondence has no rational point
away from the singular cusp image: G(s,B) = 0 with s·B ≠ 0 is
impossible over ℚ.