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Heuristics of the Cocks-Pinch method

Number Theory 2014-01-21 v7

Abstract

We heuristically analyze the Cocks-Pinch method by using the Bateman-Horn conjecture. Especially, we present the first known heuristic which suggests that any efficient construction of pairing-friendly elliptic curves can efficiently generate such curves over pairing-friendly fields, naturally including the Cocks-Pinch method. Finally, some numerical evidence is given.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1211.0971,
  title  = {Heuristics of the Cocks-Pinch method},
  author = {Min Sha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0971},
  year   = {2014}
}
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