p-adic elliptic polylogarithms and cubic Chabauty
Abstract
The Chabauty--Coleman--Kim method, under favourable circumstances, describes the set of integral points of a hyperelliptic curve inside the -adic zeroes of certain transcendental functions. For an elliptic curve of Mordell--Weil rank one, the Chabauty--Coleman--Kim set in depth 2 is given by the zeroes of a (finite union of) quadratic polynomial(s) in the -adic logarithm of the elliptic curve and the local -adic height at . Here, we give an explicit formula for a finite set containing the Chabauty--Coleman--Kim set in depth 3 for an elliptic curve of rank at most 2 under an assumption on non-vanishing of a special value of a -adic -function. The finite set is given by the zeroes of a polynomial in -adic elliptic polylogarithms. We use these formulas to verify new instances of Kim's conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.20662,
title = {p-adic elliptic polylogarithms and cubic Chabauty},
author = {Jennifer S. Balakrishnan and Francesca Bianchi and Netan Dogra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20662},
year = {2026}
}