Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-analytic-number-theory-and-elliptic-curves-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/b/6/i/solution

If as an element of , the stated lower bound is zero and is immediate. Otherwise set . The supplied formal group expansion has , because . For , the non-Archimedean estimates give
If , then , so the two terms cannot cancel and . The same strict inequality persists under iteration, so no such can have finite -power order. Every nonzero -power torsion point therefore satisfies .
For a point of order , itself forces , proving the bound for . For , put , of order . Since , the preceding maximum is . By induction,
This proves the formal torsion radius for prime power order. Taking the positive th root gives

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