Torsion-free formal subgroup for a short Weierstrass equation
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For an integral short equation , negation acts on by . Thus the integral formal multiplication series is odd: . If , the leading term has valuation , so successive doubling never kills a nonzero point. Odd multiplication has unit linear coefficient. Combined with the formal logarithm at odd primes, this proves torsion-freeness of the formal identity neighbourhood at every prime for a short equation. The short-model hypothesis matters at two.
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