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On a local invariant of elliptic curves with a p-isogeny

Number Theory 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

An elliptic curve EE defined over a pp-adic field KK with a pp-isogeny ϕ:EE\phi:E\rightarrow E^\prime comes equipped with an invariant αϕ/K\alpha_{\phi/K} that measures the valuation of the leading term of the formal group homomorphism Φ:E^E^\Phi:\hat E \rightarrow \hat E^\prime. We prove that if K/QpK/\mathbb{Q}_p is unramified and EE has additive, potentially supersingular reduction, then αϕ/K\alpha_{\phi/K} is determined by the number of distinct geometric components on the special fibers of the minimal proper regular models of EE and EE^\prime.

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@article{arxiv.1703.02148,
  title  = {On a local invariant of elliptic curves with a p-isogeny},
  author = {Matthew Gealy and Zev Klagsbrun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02148},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages