Local Tate duality for elliptic torsion and isogeny kernels #
For an elliptic curve over a nonarchimedean local field K, with m invertible in K, cup
product along the Weil pairing followed by the local invariant gives a perfect pairing
H¹(K, E[m]) × H¹(K, E[m]) → ℤ/m.
Likewise, for an isogeny φ : E₁ → E₂ over K of degree n invertible in K, cup product along
the isogeny Weil pairing e_φ : E₁[φ] × E₂[φ̂] → μ_n (TauCeti.Isogeny.kerCoeffWeilPairing)
followed by the local invariant gives a perfect pairing
H¹(K, E₁[φ]) × H¹(K, E₂[φ̂]) → ℤ/n.
Here perfection is stated as bijectivity of the curried map: every additive character of
H¹(K, E[m]), respectively of H¹(K, E₂[φ̂]), is pairing with a unique class. This is the
finite-coefficient duality used to study annihilators of local Kummer images; for an isogeny it is
the local duality between the local conditions of Sel_φ and Sel_φ̂ in Cassels' comparison of
these Selmer groups. The image of the Kummer map E(K) → H¹(K, E[m]) is isotropic for the first
pairing (WeierstrassCurve.localTateWeilPairing_kummerMap_kummerMap_eq_zero); orthogonality of
the Kummer images of an isogeny and of its dual is a further result.
No assumption that K contains the torsion or the roots of unity is required. In mixed
characteristic, m and n may be divisible by the residue characteristic.
References #
- J. S. Milne, Arithmetic Duality Theorems, 2nd ed., I, Theorem 2.1.
- J. Silverman, The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves, X.1 and X.4.
- J. W. S. Cassels, Arithmetic on curves of genus 1. VIII. On conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, J. reine angew. Math. 217 (1965), 180–199.
Cup product along the Weil pairing followed by the local invariant, valued in ℤ/m.
Instances For
The local pairing is the local invariant of the Weil cup product.
The local Tate pairing, embedded in ℚ/ℤ by k ↦ k/m, is the Brauer invariant of the
Weil cup product. The exponent need only be invertible in the field, not in its residue field.
Perfect local Tate duality for E[m]. Pairing with a class gives a bijection from
H¹(K, E[m]) to its additive characters with values in ℤ/m.
The local Kummer image is isotropic for local Tate duality: the local Tate pairing of the
Kummer classes of two points of E(K) vanishes.
Cup product along the isogeny Weil pairing followed by the local invariant, valued in
ℤ/n for n = deg φ.
Instances For
The local pairing is the local invariant of the isogeny Weil cup product.
The local Tate pairings are compatible with inclusion into degree-torsion and projection onto the dual kernel. No restriction on the residue characteristic is needed.
Perfect local Tate duality for the kernels of an isogeny and of its dual. Pairing with a
class gives a bijection from H¹(K, E₁[φ]) to the additive characters of H¹(K, E₂[φ̂]) with
values in ℤ/n, n = deg φ.