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p-adic elliptic polylogarithms and cubic Chabauty

Number Theory 2026-04-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The Chabauty--Coleman--Kim method, under favourable circumstances, describes the set of integral points of a hyperelliptic curve inside the pp-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 pp-adic logarithm of the elliptic curve and the local pp-adic height at pp. 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 pp-adic LL-function. The finite set is given by the zeroes of a polynomial in pp-adic elliptic polylogarithms. We use these formulas to verify new instances of Kim's conjecture.

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@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}
}
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