Author
Balakrishnan, JS
Besser, A
Journal title
Journal fuer die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik: Crelle's journal
DOI
10.1515/crelle-2012-0095
Issue
n/a
Volume
2013
Last updated
2016-11-11T18:12:01.32+00:00
Page
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Abstract
We give a direct proof that the Mazur-Tate and Coleman-Gross heights on
elliptic curves coincide. The main ingredient is to extend the Coleman-Gross
height to the case of divisors with non-disjoint support and, doing some
$p$-adic analysis, show that, in particular, its component above $p$ gives, in
the special case of an ordinary elliptic curve, the $p$-adic sigma function.
We use this result to give a short proof of a theorem of Kim characterizing
integral points on elliptic curves in some cases under weaker assumptions. As a
further application, we give new formulas to compute double Coleman integrals
from tangential basepoints.
Symplectic ID
398263
Publication type
Journal Article
Publication date
2013
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