The formal point, the filtration, and the structure of E(K_v) #
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Building on the valuation estimates, this file constructs the point (t/w(t), -1/w(t)) of
E(K_v) attached to an šŖ-point of the formal group (formalPoint), proves the parametrization
is additive, and defines the filtration E_{n+1}(K_v) of points whose x-coordinate has a pole
of order at least 2(n+1). It then proves torsion-freeness of the kernel of reduction Eā(K_v)
under the standard ramification condition, that every filtration step has finite index, and the
structure theorem: E(K_v) has a finite-index subgroup isomorphic to (šŖ_v, +).
The parametrized point of the kernel of reduction attached to a parameter t ā šŖ,
t ā 0, is nonsingular.
The point of the kernel of reduction attached to an šŖ-point of the formal group of
the integral model Wā: the parameter t gives the affine point (t/w(t), -1/w(t)),
and t = 0 gives the point at infinity.
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The parametrization of the kernel of reduction is injective.
Every affine point with a pole of order at least 2 at x comes from a parameter
in šŖ.
The parametrization intertwines the formal inverse with negation of points.
The parametrization of the kernel of reduction is additive.
For an elliptic curve W over K_v with an integral model Wā and n : ā, the
subgroup E_{n+1}(K_v) of points (x, y) with exp (2 * (n + 1)) ⤠v(x) (a pole of order
at least 2(n + 1) at x, together with 0); this is the kernel of reduction modulo
šŖ^(n+1), isomorphic to the group Ć(šŖ^(n+1)) of points of the formal group of Wā
(Silverman, VII.2.2). Closure under addition comes from the formal group: both summands
are parametrized by šŖ^(n+1)-parameters, and the addition series preserves that level.
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The filtration correspondence: the parameter lies in šŖ^(n+1) exactly when the
associated point lies in the filtration step E_{n+1}(K_v).
Every point of the kernel of reduction comes from a parameter in šŖ: the
parametrization by the šŖ-points of the formal group is surjective onto
filtration hW 0.
The šŖ-points of the formal group law of an integral model Wā of W are the kernel
of reduction Eā(K_v) = filtration hW 0, via z ⦠(x, y) with x = z/w(z),
y = -1/w(z); the equivalence matches the filtration by valuation on both sides
(Silverman, VII.2.2).
The filtration is decreasing.
The kernel of reduction is torsion-free under the standard ramification condition
(Silverman VII.3.1(b)/VII.3.4): if the residue characteristic p satisfies
(p : šŖ_v) ā šŖ^(p-1) ā that is, e < p ā 1 for the absolute ramification index e ā
then Eā(K_v) contains no nonzero point of finite order. Consequently the torsion of
E(K_v) (and of any subgroup, such as the image of E(K)) injects into the reduction
E(K_v)/Eā(K_v).
Torsion points of E(K_v) with the same image modulo the kernel of reduction agree:
the reduction map is injective on torsion under the ramification condition.
The kernel of reduction has finite index in E(K_v): the complement consists of
integral points, which a compactness argument covers by finitely many congruence
neighbourhoods.
Each step of the valuation filtration on the points of an elliptic curve over K_v has
finite index, by induction: each step has finite index in the previous one
(relIndex_filtration_succ_ne_zero), and the 0-th step has finite index in E(K_v).
Some step of the valuation filtration on the points of an elliptic curve over K_v is
isomorphic to the additive group of šŖ_v: for šŖ^k past the ramification of the residue
characteristic, the scaled formal logarithm identifies Ć(šŖ^k) with (šŖ^k, +) ā
(šŖ_v, +)
(Silverman, IV.6.4).
The group of points of an elliptic curve over the completion K_v (a characteristic-0
local field with finite residue field) has a subgroup of finite index that is isomorphic to
the additive group of the valuation ring šŖ_v.
This is the structure theorem coming from the formal group of the curve: pass to an integral model and take a suitable step of the valuation filtration.