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.
The height-one prime (p) of ℤ.
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The integer height-one prime above three, with its primality witness fixed internally.
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The integer height-one prime above five, with its primality witness fixed internally.
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The integer height-one prime above eleven, with its primality witness fixed internally.
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The residue field at the integer prime three, identified with ZMod 3.
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The residue field at the integer prime five, identified with ZMod 5.
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The residue field at the integer prime eleven, identified with ZMod 11.
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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.
At the unramified prime five, a torsion point in the formal kernel is zero. The integral model need not have good reduction.
At the unramified prime eleven, a torsion point in the formal kernel is zero. The integral model need not have good reduction.
Two torsion points at five agree if their difference lies in the formal kernel. This is the collision statement consumed by torsion specialization.
Two torsion points at eleven agree if their difference lies in the formal kernel.