The 2-class groups of cubic fields and 2-descents on elliptic curves

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1178227250MaRDI QIDQ1802555zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mayumi Kawachi, Shin-Ichi Nakano

Publication date 17 June 1993

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1178227250

zbMATH Keywords

cubic fieldelliptic curveexact sequenceideal class groupMordell- Weil group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Cubic and quartic extensions (11R16) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29)

Review text

Let \(E\) be an elliptic curve defined over \(\mathbb{Q}\) with no rational point of order two and \(K\) the cubic field generated by a point of order two. Under some local conditions, there is an exact sequence which relates the 2-class group \(C(K)\) of \(K\) to the 2-Selmer group of \(E/\mathbb{Q}\). Combining the 2-descent exact sequence of \(E/\mathbb{Q}\), one can connect \(C(K)\) with the Mordell-Weil group \(E(\mathbb{Q})\) of \(E/\mathbb{Q}\), and give an inequality on their ranks. The topic of the simplest cubic fields is emphasized in this paper. For such fields, it is possible to describe more precisely the relation of two groups \(C(K)\) and \(E(\mathbb{Q})\) by means of the twists of elliptic curves, and a better estimation of the 2-rank of \(C(K)\) is obtained.

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