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Computing the Cassels-Tate pairing on 3-isogeny Selmer groups via cubic norm equations

Number Theory 2017-11-08 v1

Abstract

We explain a method for computing the Cassels-Tate pairing on the 3-isogeny Selmer groups of an elliptic curve. This improves the upper bound on the rank of the elliptic curve coming from a descent by 3-isogeny, to that coming from a full 3-descent. One ingredient of our work is a new algorithm for solving cubic norm equations, that avoids the need for any S-unit computations. As an application, we show that the elliptic curves with torsion subgroup of order 3 and rank at least 13, found by Eroshkin, have rank exactly 13.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02432,
  title  = {Computing the Cassels-Tate pairing on 3-isogeny Selmer groups via cubic norm equations},
  author = {Monique van Beek and Tom Fisher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02432},
  year   = {2017}
}

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31 pages

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