The Witt ring of an elliptic curve over a local field (Q1817312)

Let \(X\) be an elliptic curve over a field \(K\) of characteristic different from 2. The Witt ring \(W(X)\) of symmetric bilinear spaces over \(X\) is diagonalizable if a certain natural homomorphism from the \(W(K)\)-module \(\bigoplus_P W(K(T))\), where \(P\) runs through the rational closed points, into \(W(X)\) is an epimorphism. The authors completely determine when \(W(X)\) is diagonalizable for all elliptic curves \(X\) over local fields with the residue class field different from 2 and 4. Some sample results: Suppose \(X\) has no rational points of order two. Then \(W(X)\) is diagonalizable iff \(K\) is not dyadic. Suppose that \(X\) has only one rational point of order two. Then \(W(X)\) is diagonalizable iff there is an isogeny \(g: Y \rightarrow X\) of degree 2 such that \(g(Y(K))=2X(K)\). Some other results concerned with \(W(X)\) are also proved.