Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-125/2/b/solution

For , the duplication formula is
At , the tangent slope is , so and . If , the unique lowest-valuation terms in the numerator and denominator are respectively and , giving
Induction yields .
For a minimal integral equation, let be the parameter of the formal group of an elliptic curve. Define
where is the kernel of reduction to the identity. The parameter identifies with the formal group on . For odd , the formal logarithm converges on and is an analytic group isomorphism
For , the logarithm gives . The formal duplication series satisfies , so ; successive lifting makes surjective. Its kernel is rational 2-torsion, but has no root in because it has no root modulo . Thus is an isomorphism and
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