Translation invariance of a Weierstrass differential

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On a nonsingular equation in characteristic different from two, is regular and nowhere zero. For a chord of slope giving , differentiating the line-intersection identity yields , so . Extension across the exceptional cases proves invariance under every translation on an elliptic curve. The addition map consequently satisfies , and .

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