Unramified Kummer classes at good reduction #
For a Weierstrass curve over a nonarchimedean local field K, the unramified subgroup of
H¹(K, E[m]) is the kernel of restriction to inertia. The coefficient module uses the separable
closure, so inertia is transported from the algebraic closure through
TauCeti.absoluteGaloisGroupRestrictEquiv.
At good reduction, if m is prime to the residue characteristic, every Kummer class is
unramified. Indeed inertia fixes every m-division point of a rational point, so the cocycle
σ ↦ σ Q - Q vanishes on inertia. This gives the containment of the local Kummer condition in
the unramified local condition used to control ramification of Selmer classes.
Consequently a Selmer class restricts to an unramified class at each nonarchimedean local
field in its defining family where the equation has good reduction and m is a residue unit.
Unramifiedness is also stable under restriction to any extension of nonarchimedean local fields,
since the inertia subgroup of the larger field maps into that of the smaller one. This carries the
local conditions at the places of a number field to the places of a finite extension, such as the
m-division field, as the proof of the finiteness of Selmer groups requires (Silverman X.4.2).
References #
- J. Silverman, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves, VII.4.1, VIII.1.5 and X.4.
The unramified classes in H¹(K, E[m]): the kernel of restriction to inertia, transported
to the automorphisms of the separable closure used by W.TorsionCoeff m.
Instances For
A class is unramified exactly when its restriction to inertia is zero.
Unramified classes restrict to unramified classes. For an extension L/K of
nonarchimedean local fields and a K-embedding τ : Kˢ → Lˢ of separable closures, restriction
H¹(K, E[m]) → H¹(L, E[m]) along τ sends unramified classes to unramified classes, because the
inertia subgroup of L maps into that of K. No reduction hypothesis on W is needed.
At good reduction, inertia fixes an m-division point of a K-rational point when m
is prime to the residue characteristic. The action here is on the discrete coefficient module
over the separable closure.
The Kummer cocycle of a division point of a rational point vanishes on inertia at good reduction, when its multiplier is prime to the residue characteristic.
At good reduction, the Kummer class of a rational point is unramified when the multiplier is prime to the residue characteristic.
At good reduction away from the multiplier, the local Kummer condition is contained in the unramified local condition.
A Selmer class is unramified at each nonarchimedean local field in its defining family where the equation has good reduction and the multiplier is prime to the residue characteristic. No good-reduction assumption is made at the other fields in the family.
Classes unramified outside S #
The classes of H¹(G_K, E[m]) unramified outside S: those whose restriction to the
completion K_v along τ v, for every prime v ∉ S, is unramified, that is, vanishes on the
inertia subgroup of K_v.
Instances For
A class is unramified outside S exactly when its restriction to every K_v with v ∉ S
is unramified.
Selmer classes are unramified outside the bad primes. If W has good reduction at every
prime v ∉ S and no prime outside S divides m, then every class of the m-Selmer group
relative to the completions K_v is unramified outside S.