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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 125 3 b Solution by
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The elliptic-curve discriminant is supported at and , so and are primes of good reduction. Direct point counts giveFor example, summing over and adding the point at infinity gives these values.
The reduction of torsion points on an elliptic curve at the two primes shows that divides eight. Part (a) shows that has order four, and is an independent point of order two because it does not lie in . They already generate eight points, so
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