Showing posts with label p-adic. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Elliptic Curves with trace t = 1 [Practice]

So here comes the practical aspect of the previous post about elliptic curves with trace $1$.

I use SAGE for practical demonstration. You can use the online notebook functionality of it, e.g., under sagenb.org or nt.sagenb.org.

I use the curve $y^2 = x^3 + x + 4$, which has $19$ points over $\mathbb{F}_{19}$ and hence has trace equal to one.
--- Input
p = 19;
K = GF(19);
E = EllipticCurve(K,[1,4]); #y^2 = x^3 + x + 4
print "E is: ",E;
print "#E[K] = ",E.count_points();
 

--- Output
E is:  Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 = x^3 + x + 4 over Finite Field of size 19
#E[GF(19)] =  19