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Classification of torsion of elliptic curves over quintic fields

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We determine all the groups that appear as the torsion group of an elliptic curve over a quintic number field. Apart from the groups that already occur infinitely often, which were determined by Derickx and Sutherland, exactly three groups occur: Z/28Z\mathbb{Z}/28\mathbb{Z}, Z/30Z\mathbb{Z}/30\mathbb{Z} and Z/2Z×Z/18Z\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/18\mathbb{Z}. Up to isomorphism of the pair (K,E)(K,E), the first and the third are each realised by a single elliptic curve and the second by two curves, which are 22-isogenous over a common quintic field. The curves realising Z/28Z\mathbb{Z}/28\mathbb{Z} and Z/30Z\mathbb{Z}/30\mathbb{Z} were found by van Hoeij, while the group Z/2Z×Z/18Z\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/18\mathbb{Z} is new, and 55 is the smallest degree in which a non-cyclic sporadic torsion group occurs. The methods improve on those developed by Derickx and Najman, and are based on Hecke sieves and the arithmetic of cuspidal divisor classes.

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