The LMS JCM, (11) 40-59. Published 18 Mar 2008. First received 12 Sep 2007.


Efficient computation of p-adic heights

David Harvey



Abstract: We analyse and drastically improve the running time of the algorithm of Mazur, Stein and Tate for computing the canonical cyclotomic p-adic height of a point on an elliptic curve E/Q, where E has good ordinary reduction at p \geq 5.

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