For an isogeny of elliptic curves over a number field , this finite subgroup of consists of Galois cohomology classes whose restriction at every place comes from . It fits intowhere the last group is the kernel of the induced map on Tate–Shafarevich groups. Thus local computations bound the rational-point quotient without necessarily determining it. For multiplication by , this recovers the Selmer group of an elliptic curve.
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