The Classification of Supersingular Elliptic Curves in Characteristic 3
Abstract
We provide an explicit classification of supersingular elliptic curves in characteristic~3 into isomorphism classes, and give explicit formulae for their point counts. This report was written specifically to support implementation of point counting in Hecke.jl; accordingly, the reasoning is concrete and elementary. After the first version appeared, we learned that the explicit classification was already obtained by Morain. We believe the present note remains useful in offering a more self-contained and implementation-oriented treatment. The explicit connection to previous Morain's classificaion is given in the appendix.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic
Advanced Algebra and Geometry
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 29 January 2026
- Document type
- Preprint