The marked double in the next tame Tate branch #
Let an integral short Weierstrass equation over the valuation ring of an adic completion have
standard cuspidal special fibre. After the first coefficient split, suppose the quotient of
a₄ by a uniformizer has nonzero residue. This file proves the precise pointwise consequence
needed downstream: the double of every local point has canonical nonsingular reduction.
For a point specializing to the cusp, the tangent numerator has valuation exactly one. If the
ordinate has valuation at least two, the tangent slope has a pole and the double belongs to the
formal kernel. Otherwise the slope is an integral unit, and the double reduces to
(lambda^2, -lambda^3) on Y² = X³, away from its singular origin. No Kodaira symbol,
strict-transform assertion, regular model, or component-cardinality statement is made.
In the a₄/ϖ-nonzero branch of a normalized tame equation, the double of every local point
belongs to the canonical nonsingular-reduction subgroup.
The same branch supplies the uniform exponent twelve used by the arithmetic specialization consumers: it is six times the checked double.