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Icosahedral representations and elliptic curves

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In this paper we show a connection between icosahedral Artin representations of the rationals and elliptic curves. More specifically, we prove for each suitable elliptic curve defined over there is an associated icosahedral Artin representation defined over the rationals.

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Girardi, T. Icosahedral representations and elliptic curves. manuscripta math. 117, 239–263 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-005-0558-1

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