Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves: 151 (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 151) - Softcover

Silverman, Joseph H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387943285 ISBN 13: 9780387943282

Publisher: Springer, 1994

Synopsis

In the introduction to the first volume of The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves (Springer-Verlag, 1986), I observed that "the theory of elliptic curves is rich, varied, and amazingly vast," and as a consequence, "many important topics had to be omitted." I included a brief introduction to ten additional topics as an appendix to the first volume, with the tacit understanding that eventually there might be a second volume containing the details. You are now holding that second volume. it turned out that even those ten topics would not fit Unfortunately, into a single book, so I was forced to make some choices. The following material is covered in this book: I. Elliptic and modular functions for the full modular group. II. Elliptic curves with complex multiplication. III. Elliptic surfaces and specialization theorems. IV. Neron models, Kodaira-Neron classification of special fibers, Tate's algorithm, and Ogg's conductor-discriminant formula. V. Tate's theory of q-curves over p-adic fields. VI. Neron's theory of canonical local height functions.

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..."this book deserves to be as popular as its forerunner and a great many people will be looking forward to reading a third volume." - Monatshefte fr Mathematik

.,."this book deserves to be as popular as its forerunner and a great many people will be looking forward to reading a third volume." - Monatshefte fA1/4r Mathematik

Synopsis

This book continues the treatment of the arithmetic theory of elliptic curves begun in the first volume. The book begins with the theory of elliptic and modular functions for the full modular group r(1), including a discussion of Hekcke operators and the L-series associated to cusp forms. This is followed by a detailed study of elliptic curves with complex multiplication, their associated Grossencharacters and L-series, and applications to the construction of abelian extensions of quadratic imaginary fields. Next comes a treatment of elliptic curves over function fields and elliptic surfaces, including specialization theorems for heights and sections. This material serves as a prelude to the theory of minimal models and Neron models of elliptic curves, with a discussion of special fibers, conductors, and Ogg's formula. Next comes a brief description of q-models for elliptic curves over C and R, followed by Tate's theory of q-models for elliptic curves with non-integral j-invariant over p-adic fields. The book concludes with the construction of canonical local height functions on elliptic curves, including explicit formulas for both archimedean and non-archimedean fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0387943285
• ISBN 13: 9780387943282
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 541