Sequences associated to elliptic curves

Abstract

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over a field $K$ (with $char(K)\ne 2$) given by a Weierstrass equation and let $P=(x,y)\in E(K)$ be a point. Then for each $n$ $\ge 1$ and some $\gamma \in K^{\ast }$ we can write the $x$- and $y$-coordinates of the point $[n]P$ as \begin{equation*} \lbrack n]P=\left( \frac{ϕ_n(P)}{ψ_n^2(P)}, \frac{ω_n(P) }{ψ_n^3(P)} \right) =\left( \frac{γ^2 G_n(P)}{F_n^2(P)}, \frac{γ^3 H_n(P)}{F_n^3(P)}\right) \end{equation*} where ${\varphi }_n,{\psi }_n,{\omega }_n\in K[x,y]$, $\gcd ({\varphi }_n,{\psi }_n^2)=1$ and \begin{equation*} F_n(P) = γ^{1-n^2}ψ_n(P), G_n(P) = γ^{-2n^{2}}ϕ_{n}(P),H_{n}(P) = γ^{-3n^{2}} ω_n(P) \end{equation*} are suitably normalized division polynomials of $E$. In this work we show the coefficients of the elliptic curve $E$ can be defined in terms of the sequences of values $(G_n(P){)}_{n\ge 0}$ and $(H_n(P){)}_{n\ge 0}$ of the suitably normalized division polynomials of $E$ evaluated at a point $P\in E(K)$. Then we give the general terms of the sequences $(G_n(P){)}_{n\ge 0}$ and $(H_n(P){)}_{n\ge 0}$ associated to Tate normal form of an elliptic curve. As an application of this we determine square and cube terms in these sequences.

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• The sign of an elliptic divisibility sequence