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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 18 2 v Solution by
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Pulling back the factors of automorphy in the Appell–Humbert theorem by , where , pulls back both the Hermitian form and the semicharacter of a complex lattice. Thus the explicit answer isWriting makes the second formula completely explicit:The second equality is an equality of signs, obtained by reducing the exponents modulo . The Hermitian form follows from . Its integer parameter equals the norm of the Gaussian integer, agreeing with the degree of this nonzero isogeny of elliptic curves. The formulas also include , when the pulled-back line bundle is trivial.
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