Fix distinct primes [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and let [Formula: see text] be an elliptic curve defined over a number field [Formula: see text]. The [Formula: see text]-entanglement type of [Formula: see text] over [Formula: see text] is the isomorphism class of the group [Formula: see text]. The size of this group measures the extent to which the image of the mod [Formula: see text] Galois representation attached to [Formula: see text] fails to be a direct product of the mod [Formula: see text] and mod [Formula: see text] images. In this paper, we study how the [Formula: see text]-entanglement group varies over different base fields. We prove that for each prime [Formula: see text] dividing the greatest common divisor of the size of the mod [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] images, there are infinitely many fields [Formula: see text] such that the entanglement over [Formula: see text] is cyclic of order [Formula: see text]. We also classify all possible [Formula: see text]-entanglement types that can occur as the base field [Formula: see text] varies.
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