Legendre form of an elliptic curve

ID: legendre-form-of-an-elliptic-curve

Over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from two, a cubic Weierstrass model with distinct roots becomes this form by sending two roots to zero and one, then scaling by a square root of the resulting nonzero coefficient. The third root becomes . The point is a flex and the curve is a genus one curve.

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