The additive subgroup of $\mathbb{C}$ generated by two complex numbers $a$ and $b$, i.e. the (typically rank-2) lattice $\mathbb{Z}a + \mathbb{Z}b$.
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A sublattice $L' \leq L$ is called cyclic (Definition 20.1) if the quotient $L/L'$ is a cyclic abelian group. Cyclic sublattices correspond to cyclic isogenies of the associated complex tori.
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An isogeny $\varphi : E_1 \to E_2$ between elliptic curves over a field $F$ is cyclic iff its kernel is a cyclic abelian group.
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Lemma 20.2 (cyclic isogeny ↔ cyclic sublattice): an isogeny of complex elliptic curves is cyclic iff the corresponding sublattice inclusion has cyclic quotient.
Hermite normal form for sublattices: every finite-index sublattice $L'$ of $\mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}\tau$ admits a basis of the form $\{d, a\tau + k\}$ with $a, d > 0$ and $a \cdot d = [L : L']$.
For each $k \in \{0, \ldots, N-1\}$, the lattice $\mathbb{Z}N + \mathbb{Z}(\tau + k)$ is a sublattice of $\mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}\tau$: scaling the first generator by $N$ and shifting the second produces a sublattice.
Any sublattice of prime index $p$ has cyclic quotient: every abelian group of prime order is cyclic.
Classification of cyclic sublattices of prime index $p$ in $\mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}\tau$: they are exactly the $p+1$ lattices $\mathbb{Z} + \mathbb{Z}(p\tau)$ and $\mathbb{Z}p + \mathbb{Z}(\tau + k)$ for $k = 0, 1, \ldots, p-1$. This parametrizes the $p+1$ cyclic $p$-isogenies out of the complex torus $\mathbb{C}/(\mathbb{Z}+\mathbb{Z}\tau)$.