Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-125/2/c/ii/solution

For over , each of gives the single affine point with . Including gives , so the Frobenius trace is . Therefore the Frobenius isogeny of an elliptic curve satisfies
On the -torsion, this reads . The element has order ten and . Hence
and no smaller positive power of is the identity on . A division field of an elliptic curve over a finite field has degree equal to the order of Frobenius on the torsion module, so
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