Re: New GP function ellrank (2-descent)

Karim Belabas <[email protected]>
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* Bill Allombert [2021-02-16 13:51]:
> > Also what does the output of ellrankinint() contain?   (If you say
> > that it is very technical and I should not worry about it, I will feel
> > like a Mathematica user!)   In particular, does it contain the
> > quartics which represent elements of (or generators of) the 2-Selmer
> > group?
> 
> No, it only contains the bnfinit of the 2-division polynomial.
> This way you can also use it for twists.

More precisely the "bnfinit" for the étale Q-algebra Q[X] / (P), where
P is the 2-division polynomial.

Cheers,

    K.B.
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