Computing the endomorphism ring of an elliptic curve over a finite field

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I would like to have an algorithm (possibly very inefficient) that computes the endomorphism ring of a given elliptic curve E over a finite field k.

For simplicity, we shall assume that E is ordinary (to avoid maximal orders in quaternion algebras...), so it is enough to compute the conductor of End(E) in the imaginary quadratic field K:=Q(π), where q=|k| and π=a2q4q. We know that this conductor divides [OK:Z[π]], the latter being quite easy to compute in Sage I suppose.

But now, is there a way to check whether, for a given f[OK:Z[π]], we have Z+fOK=End(E) ? This is where I don't know how to proceed.

I am aware of Kohel's thesis, which involves isogeny graphs, but I'm not sure if one can implement this in Sage easily.

Ideally, I want to reproduce the table on page 303 in Edixhoven, van der Geer and Moonen's Abelian Varieties, which lists EndF7(E) for all (isomorphism classes of) elliptic curves over F7.

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slelievre gravatar imageslelievre ( 4 years ago )
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@slelievre : thanks for the update, and for your comment! I actually asked the same question there (https://math.stackexchange.com/questi...), but I might have more chance to get an answer here.

Watson gravatar imageWatson ( 4 years ago )

Now answered on math.SE.

David Loeffler gravatar imageDavid Loeffler ( 4 years ago )