Explicit points on the Legendre curve. III

Abstract: We continue our study of the Legendre elliptic curve

y^{2} = x (x + 1) (x + t)

over function fields

K_{d} = m a t h b f F_{p} (m u_{d}, t^{1 / d})

. When

d = p^{f} + 1

, we have previously exhibited explicit points generating a subgroup

V_{d}

of

E (K_{d})

of rank

d - 2

and of finite,

p

-power index. We also proved the finiteness of

I I I (E / K_{d})

and a class number formula:

[E (K_{d}) : V_{d}]^{2} = | I I I (E / K_{d}) |

. In this paper, we compute

E (K_{d}) / V_{d}

and

I I I (E / K_{d})

explicitly as modules over

m a t h b f Z_{p} [m a t h r m G a l (K_{d} / F_{p} (t))]

.

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