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\textbf{Question:} is Lemma 1 of Lang's \emph{Elliptic Curves Diophantine Analysis}, Chapter 5 Section 5, page 117 (References/Kummer theory/LANG-book-EC.pdf) consistent with Jones-Rouse's Theorem 5.2, i.e. can we deduce that $F(\beta_1)$ is partially contained in $F(A[2])$ already?
I believe the answer is no. Lang is working over a base field that contains all the $\ell^\infty$ torsion of $A$, so it doesn't apply in our case (J\&R assume surjectivity of the torsion part).
A counterexample is actually given by J\&R right after the proof of the theorem (``Remark''). They don't say explicitly that $\kiu(\beta_1)\cap \kiu(A[2])=\kiu$ in this case, but I have tested this with sage (see the file \texttt{2-division-counterex.sage}): $\kiu(\beta_1)$ has degree $24$ over $\kiu$ and $\kiu(A[2])$ has degree $2$, which together imply that $[\kiu(A[2],\beta_1):\kiu(A[2])]\geq 4$, so it is maximal.
The file \texttt{2-division.sage} contains some code that looks for other counterexamples (varying the parameters of a short Weierstrass equation), but it is quite slow (about 3 minutes on my pc for each elliptic curve of which it computes the 4-torsion field).
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