Sesquilinear pairings on elliptic curves

Abstract

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by a ring $R$, where $R$ is an order in an imaginary quadratic field or quaternion algebra. We define sesquilinear pairings ($R$-linear in one variable and $R$-conjugate linear in the other), taking values in an $R$-module, generalizing the Weil and Tate-Lichtenbaum pairings.

21 pages; this version includes improvements in exposition and small corrections