Local data of elliptic curves under quadratic twist
Abstract
Let be the field of fractions of a complete discrete valuation ring with a perfect residue field. In this article, we investigate how the Tamagawa number of changes under quadratic twist. To accomplish this, we introduce the notion of a strongly-minimal model for an elliptic curve , which is a minimal Weierstrass model satisfying certain conditions that lead one to easily infer the local data of . Our main results provide explicit conditions on the Weierstrass coefficients of a strongly-minimal model of to determine the local data of a quadratic twist . We note that when the residue field has characteristic , we only consider the special case . In this setting, we also determine the minimal discriminant valuation and conductor exponent of and from further conditions on the coefficients of a strongly-minimal model for .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.03209,
title = {Local data of elliptic curves under quadratic twist},
author = {Alexander J. Barrios and Manami Roy and Nandita Sahajpal and Darwin Tallana and Bella Tobin and Hanneke Wiersema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.03209},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
41 pages; normal model renamed to strongly-minimal model; incorporates suggestions by referees; final version to appear in Research in Number Theory