Use the standard theorem on reduction of torsion points on an elliptic curve: at a prime of good reduction, reduction is injective on torsion whose order is prime to that prime. Reduction at implies that every odd-primary part of the rational torsion subgroup has order dividing . Thus its only possible odd prime is , and its -primary part has order at most . Reduction at injects the -primary part into a group of order , so that part is trivial. No other primary part can occur.
Consequently the torsion subgroup has order at most three. Since has exact order three,This argument uses only prime-to-residue-characteristic injectivity, and therefore avoids an unjustified claim of full torsion injectivity at the prime .
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