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Past exam of the analytic number theory and elliptic curves course of the University of Oxford 2007 B 6 iii Solution by
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The discriminant is , which is nonzero modulo three because . Thus there is good reduction at three. For every , the reduced right side is , so its only affine points are . Together with the identity they form .
By part (ii), the rational torsion subgroup injects into this four-element group and hence has exponent two. Over , the two-torsion points have , requiring . Since , the only rational root is zero. Therefore
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