The elliptic-curve discriminant is , so the elliptic curve has good reduction at both and . At a prime of good reduction, the reduction of torsion points on an elliptic curve is injective on torsion of order prime to . Here is the formal reason: the kernel of reduction of an elliptic curve is described by an integral formal group law on , and its multiplication series is . If , the first term has strictly smaller valuation than every higher term for . Thus this kernel has no nonidentity point killed by .
Apply this to each prime-primary component of the rational torsion subgroup. A component at injects into , of order , and is therefore trivial. A component at injects into , of order , and is trivial. Every other prime-primary component injects into both groups, so its order divides . This proves the two-prime bound on rational elliptic torsion in the present case:
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