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Local data of elliptic curves under quadratic twist

Number Theory 2025-08-14 v2

Abstract

Let KK 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 E/KE/K changes under quadratic twist. To accomplish this, we introduce the notion of a strongly-minimal model for an elliptic curve E/KE/K, which is a minimal Weierstrass model satisfying certain conditions that lead one to easily infer the local data of E/KE/K. Our main results provide explicit conditions on the Weierstrass coefficients of a strongly-minimal model of E/KE/K to determine the local data of a quadratic twist Ed/KE^{d}/K. We note that when the residue field has characteristic 22, we only consider the special case K=Q2K=\mathbb{Q}_{2}. In this setting, we also determine the minimal discriminant valuation and conductor exponent of EE and EdE^d from further conditions on the coefficients of a strongly-minimal model for EE.

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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