Tamagawa numbers of elliptic curves with torsion points (Q2161403)

Let \(K\) be a global field and \(E\) be an elliptic curve defined over \(K\) with a \(K\)-rational point of prime order \(p\). In this paper, the author is interested in whether the global Tamagawa number \(c(E/K)\) of the curve \(E\) is divisible by \(p\). The main result states that there is a positive integer \(n_{K}\) such that for each prime number \(p\geq 7\) and each elliptic curve \(E/K\) with \(K\)-rational point of order \(p\), we have that \(p|c(E/K)\) with at most \(n_{K}\) exceptions. This generalizes earlier results of \textit{D. Lorenzini} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 61, No. 5, 1995--2037 (2011; Zbl 1283.11088)] and \textit{D. Krumm} [Quadratic points on modular curves. Athens: University of Georgia (PhD Thesis) (2013)]. The author also presents some non-divisibility results for higher dimensional abelian varieties. For example, it is proved that for each prime \(p\geq 5\) There exist infinitely many abelian varieties \(A/\mathbb{Q}\) of dimension at most \((p^2-1)/2\) with a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-rational point of order \(p\) and such that \(p\nmid c(A/\mathbb{Q})\).