Coleman-Gross height pairings and the $p$-adic sigma function
Number Theory
2012-07-26 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We give a direct proof that the Mazur-Tate and Coleman-Gross heights on elliptic curves coincide. The main ingredient is to extend the Coleman-Gross height to the case of divisors with non-disjoint support and, doing some -adic analysis, show that, in particular, its component above gives, in the special case of an ordinary elliptic curve, the -adic sigma function. We use this result to give a short proof of a theorem of Kim characterizing integral points on elliptic curves in some cases under weaker assumptions. As a further application, we give new formulas to compute double Coleman integrals from tangential basepoints.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.6016,
title = {Coleman-Gross height pairings and the $p$-adic sigma function},
author = {Jennifer S. Balakrishnan and Amnon Besser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.6016},
year = {2012}
}
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