Quartic equations and 2-division on elliptic curves

Details Quartic equations and 2-division on elliptic curves Quartic equations and 2-division on elliptic curves

2007-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/0706.4379v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

20 pages

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Let K be a field of characteristic different from 2 and C an elliptic curve over K given by a Weierstrass equation. To divide an element of the group C by 2, one must solve a certain quartic equation. We characterise the quartics arising from this procedure and find how far the quartic determines the curve and the point. We find the quartics coming from 2-division of 2- and 3-torsion points, and generalise this correspondence to singular plane cubics. We use these results to study the question of which degree 4 maps of curves can be realised as duplication of a multisection on an elliptic surface.

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