Formal kernel of a minimal Weierstrass equation

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For an elliptic curve over a local field with integral Minimal Weierstrass equation, let consist of points with nonsingular reduction and let be the kernel of . This definition also applies at a prime of bad reduction of an elliptic curve. The point at infinity is always smooth. With and , the Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve becomes
The unit linear coefficient in gives a unique integral formal power series . Then and , so the nonidentity points of have and for . The local parameter bijects with and turns its addition into the formal group of an elliptic curve. At good reduction this agrees with the kernel of reduction of an elliptic curve.

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