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On the units generated by Weierstrass forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Ömer Küçüksakallı*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics , Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey email komer@metu.edu.tr

Abstract

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There is an algorithm of Schoof for finding divisors of class numbers of real cyclotomic fields of prime conductor. In this paper we introduce an improvement of the elliptic analogue of this algorithm by using a subgroup of elliptic units given by Weierstrass forms. These elliptic units which can be expressed in terms of $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}x$-coordinates of points on elliptic curves enable us to use the fast arithmetic of elliptic curves over finite fields.