Three-Selmer groups for elliptic curves with 3-torsion

Tony Feng, Kevin James, Carolyn Kim, Eric Ramos, Catherine Trentacoste, Hui Xue

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Abstract

We consider a specific family of elliptic curves with rational 3-torsion subgroup. We arithmetically define 3-Selmer groups through isogeny and 3-descent maps, then associate the image of the 3-descent maps to solutions of homogeneous cubic polynomials affiliated with the elliptic curve E and an isogenous curve E′. Thanks to the work of Cohen and Pazuki, we have solubility conditions for the homogeneous polynomials. Using these conditions, we give a graphical approach to computing the size of 3-Selmer groups. Finally, we translate the conditions on graphs into a question concerning ranks of matrices and give an upper bound for the rank of the elliptic curve E by calculating the size of the Selmer groups.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)435-459
Number of pages25
JournalRamanujan Journal
Volume31
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2013

Keywords

  • 3-Torsion
  • Elliptic curves
  • Graph theory
  • Selmer groups

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