Five-adic obstructions for the congruent-number isogeny covers
ID: five-adic-obstructions-for-the-congruent-number-isogeny-covers
For , the two-isogeny descent classes and have no rational covering points. Their primitive integral quartics are respectively and , with .
For the first equation, reduction modulo forces and , since is not a square modulo and a nonzero fourth power is . Put . Dividing by gives , again a nonsquare modulo because . For the second equation, a primitive pair has nonzero modulo : it is or . The right side has five-adic valuation exactly , impossible for a square. Since lies on , its square-class image is exactly . Combined with the rank bound for a prime congruent-number elliptic curve computation, the two-isogeny rank formula yields rank exactly for .
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