Quasi-quadratic elliptic curve point counting using rigid cohomology

  • Authors:
  • Hendrik Hubrechts

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B - bus 2400, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Let E be a nonsupersingular elliptic curve over the finite field with p^n elements. We present a deterministic algorithm that computes the zeta function and hence the number of points of such a curve E in time quasi-quadratic in n. An older algorithm having the same time complexity uses the canonical lift of E, whereas our algorithm uses rigid cohomology combined with a deformation approach. An implementation in small odd characteristic turns out to give very good results.