A geometric approach to Euler's addition formula

DOI10.1007/S00591-011-0090-1MaRDI QIDQ656931zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erich Selder, Karlheinz Spindler

Publication date 13 January 2012

Published in Mathematische Semesterberichte (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00591-011-0090-1

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curveselliptic integralsgeometric realization of addition lawplane quartics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves (14H52) Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05)

Review text

Consider a plane quartic curve, determined by an affine Weierstrass equation \(y^2=F(x)\), with a polynomial \(F\) of degree \(4\). These curves are singular models of elliptic curves and they admit a geometric description of the group law, analogous to the classical secant construction for cubic models, in which a certain family of quadrics plays the role of the secants. Unfortunately, this construction works only for a certain open and dense subset of the set of regular points of the given quartic. This geometric construction is applied to obtain, in a very direct way, addition formulas for elliptic integrals with kernels of the form \(1/\sqrt{F(t)}\).

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