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Formal coordinates on a short Weierstrass curve
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Formal coordinates on a short Weierstrass curve
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Created
2026-09-28
Updated
2026-10-07
For
y
2
=
x
3
+
a
x
+
b
, put
t
=
−
x
/
y
and
w
=
−
1/
y
. Then
x
=
t
/
w
,
y
=
−
1/
w
, and the
curve
equation
becomes
w
=
t
3
+
a
t
w
2
+
b
w
3
.
(1)
There is
a
unique solution
w
(
t
)
∈
t
3
K
[[
t
]]
, and points in the kernel of reduction correspond to
parameters
of positive
valuation
.
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