The behavior of the mordell-weil group of elliptic curves

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 375-382

  Brumer, Armand ^a   McGuinness, Oisín ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birch Swinnerton Dyer conjecture; Discriminant; Elliptic curve; Hasse Weil L series; Mordell Weil group; Period; Rank

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968513514     PISSN: 02730979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15937-3     Document Type: Article

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