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An oft cited letter from Tate to Serre on computing local heights on elliptic curves

Number Theory 2012-07-25 v1

Abstract

A 1979 letter from John Tate to Jean-Pierre Serre in which the author describes an efficient and elegant algorithm for computing local heights on elliptic curves.

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@article{arxiv.1207.5765,
  title  = {An oft cited letter from Tate to Serre on computing local heights on elliptic curves},
  author = {John Tate},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5765},
  year   = {2012}
}