Torsion test using a deep formal logarithm subgroup
ID: torsion-test-using-a-deep-formal-logarithm-subgroup
Let have good reduction, and choose an integer . Its filtration of elliptic-curve points over a local field has a torsion-free group identified by the formal logarithm with . The quotient group is finite. For of order of a group element , choose a lift . There is a torsion point of an elliptic curve in this coset exactly when the displayed condition holds. Indeed, it is equivalent to the existence of with . Then is killed by ; conversely every torsion representative has order , since is torsion-free. The logarithmic division and the formal group exponential give the unique such . Changing the lift changes the logarithm by an element of , so the criterion is well-defined. This finite-coset test includes residue-characteristic torsion; only the prime-to-p torsion lifts uniquely at good reduction are automatic.
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