Panorbital residues and elliptic summability
Abstract
For the translation automorphism defined by a non-torsion point in an elliptic curve, we consider the elliptic summability problem of deciding whether a given elliptic function is of the form for some elliptic function . We introduce two new panorbital residues and show that they, together with the orbital residues introduced in 2018 by Dreyfus, Hardouin, Roques, and Singer, comprise a complete obstruction to the elliptic summability problem. The underlying elliptic curve can be described in any of the usual ways: as a complex torus, as a Tate curve, or as a one-dimensional abelian variety. We develop the necessary results from scratch intrinsically within each setting; in the last two of them, we also work in arbitrary characteristic. We include several basic concrete examples of computation of orbital and panorbital residues for some summable and non-summable functions in each setting. We conclude by applying the technology of orbital and panorbital residues to obtain several new results of independent interest.
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@article{arxiv.2508.18247,
title = {Panorbital residues and elliptic summability},
author = {Carlos E. Arreche and Matthew W. Babbitt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18247},
year = {2025}
}