Reduction certificate for a nonintegral elliptic point

ID: reduction-certificate-for-a-nonintegral-elliptic-point

On an integral Weierstrass equation of an elliptic curve with good reduction at a prime , a nonidentity rational point reducing to the identity cannot have both coordinates integral at . Indeed, an affine integral pair reduces to an affine point, distinct from the point at infinity. This can prove nonintegrality of a large linear combination without computing its coordinates. The nonidentity condition is essential and can often be checked using the known torsion subgroup.

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