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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 125 5 b ii Solution by
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For this curve, the square-class image in the first two-isogeny descent is contained in . All four classes occur: gives , gives , and gives . The isogenous curve isIts image is contained in . Negative cannot occur because for , while and are represented by the identity and . Thus the two image orders are four and two, andgives .
The point has order three because , and has order two, so the rational torsion contains a cyclic subgroup of order six. At the good primes and , direct point counting givesReduction bounds the rational torsion order by their greatest common divisor, namely six, so this is all the torsion. The structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain now givesThus one may take , , and .
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