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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 435-459 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Ramanujan Journal |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2013 |
Keywords
- 3-Torsion
- Elliptic curves
- Graph theory
- Selmer groups