On the Torsion Subgroups of Certain Elliptic Curves over Q

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Let E be an elliptic curve over a given number field . By Mordells Theorem, the torsion subgroup of E defined over Q is a finite group. Using Lutz-Nagell Theorem, we explicitly calculate the torsion subgroup E(Q)tors for certain elliptic curves depending on their coefficients.

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Y. Park, "On the Torsion Subgroups of Certain Elliptic Curves over Q," Advances in Pure Mathematics, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2013, pp. 304-308. doi: 10.4236/apm.2013.32043.

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