Simultaneous torsion in the Legendre family of elliptic curves.
Let α,β∈C∖{0,1} be distinct, and define T(α,β) to be the set of parameters λ∈C∖{0,1} such that the points with x-coordinate α and β are torsion on the Legendre elliptic curve y2=x(x−1)(x−λ).
Masser and Zannier have shown that T(α,β) is always finite. We will present some results regarding effectivity of T(α,β); for example, we show that the set can be effectively determined when α and β are both algebraic and not too close 2-adically. We also show that T(α,β) has at most one element when Q(α,β) has transcendence degree 1. Based on this result, we obtained a large amount of experimental data, and we will present some conjectures that are suggested by this.