TY - JOUR T1 - On Two Problems About Isogenies of Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields AU - Luo , Lixia AU - Xiao , Guanju AU - Deng , Yingpu JO - Communications in Mathematical Research VL - 4 SP - 460 EP - 488 PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11 SN - 36 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cmr.2020-0071 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cmr/18362.html KW - Elliptic curve, isogeny, kernel ideal, minimal degree. AB -

Isogenies occur throughout the theory of elliptic curves. Recently, the cryptographic protocols based on isogenies are considered as candidates of quantum-resistant cryptographic protocols. Given two elliptic curves $E_1$,$E_2$ defined over a finite field $k$ with the same trace, there is a nonconstant isogeny $β$ from $E_2$ to $E_1$ defined over $k$. This study gives out the index of Hom$_k$($E_1$,$E_2$)$β$ as a nonzero left ideal in End$_k$($E_2$) and figures out the correspondence between isogenies and kernel ideals. In addition, some results about the non-trivial minimal degree of isogenies between two elliptic curves are also provided.