{ "id": "1412.3252", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-12-10T10:46:54.000Z", "updated": "2014-12-10T10:46:54.000Z", "title": "Linear relations in families of powers of elliptic curves", "authors": [ "Fabrizio Barroero", "Laura Capuano" ], "comment": "Comments are welcome", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Motivated by recent work of Masser and Zannier on simultaneous torsion on the Legendre elliptic curve $E_\\lambda$ of equation $Y^2=X(X-1)(X-\\lambda)$, we prove that, given $n$ linearly independent points $P_1(\\lambda), ...,P_n(\\lambda)$ on $E_\\lambda$ with coordinates in $\\bar{\\mathbb{Q}(\\lambda)}$, there are at most finitely many complex numbers $\\lambda_0$ such that the points $P_1(\\lambda_0), ...,P_n(\\lambda_0)$ satisfy two independent relations on $E_{\\lambda_0}$. This is a special case of conjectures about Unlikely Intersections on families of abelian varieties.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-12-10T10:46:54.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11G05", "11G50", "11U09", "14K05" ], "keywords": [ "linear relations", "legendre elliptic curve", "complex numbers", "linearly independent points", "abelian varieties" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1412.3252B" } } }