Shadow lines in the arithmetic of elliptic curves
Number Theory
2016-10-28 v1
Abstract
Let E/Q be an elliptic curve and p a rational prime of good ordinary reduction. For every imaginary quadratic field K/Q satisfying the Heegner hypothesis for E we have a corresponding line in E(K)\otimes Q_p, known as a shadow line. When E/Q has analytic rank 2 and E/K has analytic rank 3, shadow lines are expected to lie in E(Q)\otimes Q_p. If, in addition, p splits in K/Q, then shadow lines can be determined using the anticyclotomic p-adic height pairing. We develop an algorithm to compute anticyclotomic p-adic heights which we then use to provide an algorithm to compute shadow lines. We conclude by illustrating these algorithms in a collection of examples.
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@article{arxiv.1610.08729,
title = {Shadow lines in the arithmetic of elliptic curves},
author = {Jennifer S. Balakrishnan and Mirela Ciperiani and Jaclyn Lang and Bahare Mirza and Rachel Newton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08729},
year = {2016}
}
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16 pages