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Halfway to a solution of X 2 - D Y 2 = - 3

R. A. Mollin, A. J. Van der Poorten, H. C. Williams (1994)

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux

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It is well known that the continued fraction expansion of D readily displays the midpoint of the principal cycle of ideals, that is, the point halfway to a solution of x 2 - D y 2 = ± 1 . Here we notice that, analogously, the point halfway to a solution of x 2 - D y 2 = - 3 can be recognised. We explain what is going on.

On equations defining fake elliptic curves

Pilar Bayer, Jordi Guàrdia (2005)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

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Shimura curves associated to rational nonsplit quaternion algebras are coarse moduli spaces for principally polarized abelian surfaces endowed with quaternionic multiplication. These objects are also known as . We present a method for computing equations for genus 2 curves whose Jacobian is a fake elliptic curve with complex multiplication. The method is based on the explicit knowledge of the normalized period matrices and on the use of theta functions with characteristics. As in the...