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Mathematical Research Letters
Volume 23 (2016)
Number 2
On the local-global principle for divisibility in the cohomology of elliptic curves
Pages: 377 – 387
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2016.v23.n2.a4
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Abstract
For every prime power $p^n$ with $p = 2$ or $3$ and $n \geq 2$ we give an example of an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ containing a rational point which is locally divisible by $p^n$ but is not divisible by $p^n$. For these same prime powers we construct examples showing that the analogous local-global principle for divisibility in theWeil–Châtelet group can also fail.
Accepted 3 December 2015
Published 6 June 2016