Common divisors of elliptic divisibility sequences over function fields

DOI10.1007/S00229-004-0468-7MaRDI QIDQ1882573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph H. Silverman

Publication date 1 October 2004

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Exponential Diophantine equations (11D61)

Abstract: Let E/k(T) be an elliptic curve defined over a rational function field of characteristic zero. Fix a Weierstrass equation for E. For points R in E(k(T)), write x_R=A_R/D_R^2 with relatively prime polynomials A_R(T) and D_R(T) in k[T]. The sequence {D_{nR}) for n ge 1 is called the ``elliptic divisibility sequence of R. Let P,Q in E(k(T)) be independent points. We conjecture that deg (gcd(D_{nP},D_{mQ})) is bounded for m,n ge 1, and that gcd(D_{nP},D_{nQ}) = gcd(D_{P},D_{Q}) for infinitely many n ge 1. We prove these conjectures in the case that j(E) is in k. More generally, we prove analogous statements with k(T) replaced by the function field of any curve and with P and Q allowed to lie on different elliptic curves. If instead k is a finite field of characteristic p, and again assuming that j(E) is in k, we show that deg (gcd(D_{nP},D_{nQ})) > n + O(sqrt{n}) for infinitely many n satisfying gcd(n,p) = 1.

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