Density of Elliptic Curves over Number Fields with Prescribed Torsion Subgroups

Abstract

Let $K$ be a number field. For positive integers $m$ and $n$ such that $m\mid n$, we let $\mathscr{S}_{m,n}$ be the set of elliptic curves $E/K$ defined over $K$ such that $E(K)_{\operatorname{tors}}\supseteq \mathscr{T}\cong \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$. We prove that if the genus of the modular curve $X_{1}(m,n)$ is $0$, then `almost all' $E\in \mathscr{S}_{m,n}$ satisfy that $E(K)_{\operatorname{tors}}= \mathscr{T}$, i.e., not larger than $\mathscr{T}$. In particular, if $m=n=1$, this result generalizes Duke's theorem over $\mathbb{Q}$ to arbitrary number fields $K$ for the trivial torsion subgroup.