Division by a unit in the elliptic formal group #
Multiplication by an integer invertible in the coefficient ring is an automorphism of the
elliptic formal group evaluated on an adic ideal. Its inverse is obtained by evaluating the
compositional inverse of the multiplication series, whose linear coefficient is that integer.
Mathlib's PowerSeries.substInvOfIsUnit supplies this inverse; the existing
FormalGroupPoint.coe_nsmul identifies the evaluated multiplication series with scalar
multiplication on formal parameters.
Consequently the kernel of reduction over a completed discretely valued field is uniquely
divisible by integers prime to the residue characteristic. This supplies torsion lifts under
good reduction. The point-level theorem WeierstrassCurve.exists_nsmul_eq_of_pole gives division
inside the points reducing to infinity for any integral elliptic equation over the completion.
References #
- J. Silverman, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves, IV.3.2 and VII.3.1.
Multiplication by an integer invertible in the coefficient ring is surjective on the formal group evaluated on an adic ideal.
Multiplication by an integer invertible in the coefficient ring is bijective on the formal group evaluated on an adic ideal.
The kernel of reduction is uniquely divisible by integers prime to the residue characteristic.
Over a completed discretely valued field, division by an integer prime to the residue characteristic preserves the points reducing to infinity, for any integral elliptic equation.