Isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over a finite field in some thin families

For a prime p and a given square box, B, we consider all elliptic curves Er,s : Y 2 = X 3 + rX + s defined over a field Fp of p elements with coefficients (r, s) ∈ B. We obtain a nontrivial upper bound for the number of such curves which are isomorphic to ag iven one overFp, in terms of the size of B. We also give an optimal lower bound on the number of distinct isomorphic classes represented.

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