Isogenous elliptic curves can have different rational point groups
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Isogenous elliptic curves can have different rational point groups by
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
Elliptic curves isogenous over a finite field have the same number of rational points: the isogeny intertwines Frobenius, and multiplicativity of degree gives equal degrees for . Their groups need not be isomorphic. Over , and are two-isogenous and have groups and , respectively.
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