Elliptic curves : second edition

By: Husemöller DaleMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Graduate Texts in Mathematics ; Vol. 111Publication details: New York: Springer, [c2004]Edition: 2nd edDescription: 487 pISBN: 9780387954905LOC classification: QA 567Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
1. Introduction to Rational Points on Plane Curves 2. Elementary Properties of the Chord-Tangent Group Law on a Cubic Curve 3. Plane Algebraic Curves 4. Elliptic Curves and Their Isomorphisms 5. Families of Elliptic Curves and Geometric Properties of Torsion Points 6. Reduction mod p and Torsion Points 7. Proof of Mordell’s Finite Generation Theorem 8. Galois Cohomology and Isomorphism Classification of Elliptic Curves over Arbitrary Fields 9. Descent and Galois Cohomology 10. Elliptic and Hypergeometric Functions 11. Theta Functions 12. Modular Functions 13. Endomorphisms of Elliptic Curves 14. Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields 15. Elliptic Curves over Local Fields 16. Elliptic Curves over Global Fields and ℓ-Adic Representations 17. L-Function of an Elliptic Curve and Its Analytic Continuation 18. Remarks on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture 19. Remarks on the Modular Elliptic Curves Conjecture and Fermat’s Last Theorem 20. Higher Dimensional Analogs of Elliptic Curves: Calabi-Yau Varieties 21. Families of Elliptic Curves
Summary: There are three new appendices, one by Stefan Theisen on the role of Calabi– Yau manifolds in string theory and one by Otto Forster on the use of elliptic curves in computing theory and coding theory. In the third appendix we discuss the role of elliptic curves in homotopy theory. In these three introductions the reader can get a clue to the far-reaching implications of the theory of elliptic curves in mathematical sciences. During the ?nal production of this edition, the ICM 2002 manuscript of Mike Hopkins became available. This report outlines the role of elliptic curves in ho- topy theory. Elliptic curves appear in the form of the Weierstasse equation and its related changes of variable. The equations and the changes of variable are coded in an algebraic structure called a Hopf algebroid, and this Hopf algebroid is related to a cohomology theory called topological modular forms. Hopkins and his coworkers have used this theory in several directions, one being the explanation of elements in stable homotopy up to degree 60. In the third appendix we explain how what we described in Chapter 3 leads to the Weierstrass Hopf algebroid making a link with Hopkins’ paper. --- summary provided by publisher
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1. Introduction to Rational Points on Plane Curves
2. Elementary Properties of the Chord-Tangent Group Law on a Cubic Curve
3. Plane Algebraic Curves
4. Elliptic Curves and Their Isomorphisms
5. Families of Elliptic Curves and Geometric Properties of Torsion Points
6. Reduction mod p and Torsion Points
7. Proof of Mordell’s Finite Generation Theorem
8. Galois Cohomology and Isomorphism Classification of Elliptic Curves over Arbitrary Fields
9. Descent and Galois Cohomology
10. Elliptic and Hypergeometric Functions
11. Theta Functions
12. Modular Functions
13. Endomorphisms of Elliptic Curves
14. Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields
15. Elliptic Curves over Local Fields
16. Elliptic Curves over Global Fields and ℓ-Adic Representations
17. L-Function of an Elliptic Curve and Its Analytic Continuation
18. Remarks on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
19. Remarks on the Modular Elliptic Curves Conjecture and Fermat’s Last Theorem
20. Higher Dimensional Analogs of Elliptic Curves: Calabi-Yau Varieties
21. Families of Elliptic Curves

There are three new appendices, one by Stefan Theisen on the role of Calabi– Yau manifolds in string theory and one by Otto Forster on the use of elliptic curves in computing theory and coding theory. In the third appendix we discuss the role of elliptic curves in homotopy theory. In these three introductions the reader can get a clue to the far-reaching implications of the theory of elliptic curves in mathematical sciences. During the ?nal production of this edition, the ICM 2002 manuscript of Mike Hopkins became available. This report outlines the role of elliptic curves in ho- topy theory. Elliptic curves appear in the form of the Weierstasse equation and its related changes of variable. The equations and the changes of variable are coded in an algebraic structure called a Hopf algebroid, and this Hopf algebroid is related to a cohomology theory called topological modular forms. Hopkins and his coworkers have used this theory in several directions, one being the explanation of elements in stable homotopy up to degree 60. In the third appendix we explain how what we described in Chapter 3 leads to the Weierstrass Hopf algebroid making a link with Hopkins’ paper. --- summary provided by publisher

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