- Research Article
- 10.17223/20710410/48/3
ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF ORDERS OF FROBENIUS ACTION ON ^-TORSION OF ABELIAN SURFACES
- Jun 01, 2020
- Prikladnaya Diskretnaya Matematika
- N S Kolesnikov + 1 more +1
The computation of the order of Frobenius action on the $\\ell$-torsion is a\npart of Schoof-Elkies-Atkin algorithm for point counting on an elliptic curve\n$E$ over a finite field $\\mathbb{F}_q$. The idea of Schoof's algorithm is to\ncompute the trace of Frobenius $t$ modulo primes $\\ell$ and restore it by the\nChinese remainder theorem. Atkin's improvement consists of computing the order\n$r$ of the Frobenius action on $E[\\ell]$ and of restricting the number $t\n\\pmod{\\ell}$ to enumerate by using the formula $t^2 \\equiv q (\\zeta +\n\\zeta^{-1})^2 \\pmod{\\ell}$. Here $\\zeta$ is a primitive $r$-th root of unity.\nIn this paper, we generalize Atkin's formula to the general case of abelian\nvariety of dimension $g$. Classically, finding of the order $r$ involves\nexpensive computation of modular polynomials. We study the distribution of the\nFrobenius orders in case of abelian surfaces and $q \\equiv 1 \\pmod{\\ell}$ in\norder to replace these expensive computations by probabilistic algorithms.\n
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