Good-reduction map respects elliptic addition

ID: good-reduction-map-respects-elliptic-addition

An integral Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve with unit elliptic-curve discriminant defines a smooth proper elliptic curve over the valuation ring. Properness identifies points over the local field with integral sections. The group law, constructed by adding degree-zero divisor classes, is a morphism over the valuation ring, and base change to the residue field preserves it. Hence reducing primitive projective coordinates is a group homomorphism, including exceptional affine addition cases.

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