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The local-global principle for divisibility in CM elliptic curves

Number Theory 2022-01-31 v1

Abstract

We consider the local-global principle for divisibility in the Mordell-Weil group of a CM elliptic curve defined over a number field. For each prime pp we give sharp lower bounds on the degree dd of a number field over which there exists a CM elliptic curve which gives a counterexample to the local-global principle for divisibility by a power of pp. As a corollary we deduce that there are at most finitely many elliptic curves (with or without CM) which are counterexamples with p>2d+1p > 2d+1. We also deduce that the local-global principle for divisibility by powers of 77 holds over quadratic fields.

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@article{arxiv.2201.11839,
  title  = {The local-global principle for divisibility in CM elliptic curves},
  author = {Brendan Creutz and Sheng Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11839},
  year   = {2022}
}