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MazurTorsion.EllipticCurve.IntegerPrimeSpecialization

Integer-prime residue fields and formal-kernel torsion #

The exact-pinned EllipticCurves reduction library proves that the formal kernel over an adic completion contains no nonzero torsion when the absolute ramification index is less than p - 1. This file discharges that arithmetic condition for the two unramified completions of ℚ used by the formal-immersion route, at p = 5 and p = 11. It also exposes the canonical integer prime and residue-field identification at p = 3, consumed by explicit fixed-curve reductions.

These statements do not assume good reduction: they concern the formal filtration attached to an arbitrary integral Weierstrass equation whose generic fibre is elliptic. Thus they are the part of torsion specialization which can be checked before a Neron special fibre and its component map have been constructed.

Membership in the maximal-ideal filtration of the completion is detected before completion. This is the integer-prime specialization of the exact-pin comparison theorem.