TY - JOUR
T1 - Three-Selmer groups for elliptic curves with 3-torsion
AU - Feng, Tony
AU - James, Kevin
AU - Kim, Carolyn
AU - Ramos, Eric
AU - Trentacoste, Catherine
AU - Xue, Hui
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 3-Torsion
KW - Elliptic curves
KW - Graph theory
KW - Selmer groups
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U2 - 10.1007/s11139-012-9455-x
DO - 10.1007/s11139-012-9455-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892882017
SN - 1382-4090
VL - 31
SP - 435
EP - 459
JO - Ramanujan Journal
JF - Ramanujan Journal
IS - 3
ER -