Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 125 5 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The three-isogeny descent connecting map, identified through the Weil pairing with , isThe long exact sequence attached to makes it a group homomorphism withThe function from part (b) gives the explicit formulaAt , the value is the leading coefficient of relative to the local parameter , since gives . At the ordinary formula gives , whose class is the inverse of because is a cube.
Let be the primes dividing . For a prime , useIf , then is an -adic unit, so . If , then , so . In either case is divisible by three; the special values at and have the same property. ThereforeWhen , this power-class group is trivial: a rational number whose valuation at every prime is divisible by three is a cube up to sign, and . Thus is trivial, its kernel is all of , and