Testing equivalence of ternary cubics

  • Authors:
  • Tom Fisher

  • Affiliations:
  • DPMMS, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Algorithmic Number Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Let C be a smooth plane cubic curve with Jacobian E. We give a formula for the action of the 3-torsion of E on C, and explain how it is useful in studying the 3-Selmer group of an elliptic curve defined over a number field.