Solution

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For , choose with and define the elliptic Kummer pairing
Replacing by with changes nothing because all -torsion is -rational; replacing by permits replacing by , again without changing the value. The group laws prove bilinearity. An automorphism pairing trivially with every class fixes every division point and hence . Conversely, if pairs trivially with every automorphism, a chosen is Galois fixed, so and . The pairing is therefore nondegenerate.
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