The Picard numbers of elliptic surfaces with many symmetries (Q1074678)
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The Picard numbers of elliptic surfaces with many symmetries (English)
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1987
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In this paper the Picard numbers of several families of elliptic surfaces are computed. This is equivalent to the difficult problem of determining the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of certain elliptic curves over function fields. The method is to study the action induced by automorphisms of these surfaces on a relevant part of the cohomology. The cohomology classes are represented by certain inhomogeneous differential equations - on which the effect of the action is easily understood.
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Picard numbers
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rank of the Mordell-Weil group
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elliptic curves over function fields
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automorphisms
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