The Mordell-Weil group of an abelian variety $A$ over a number field $K$ is its group of $K$-rational points $A(K)$.
As proved by Weil, $A(K)$ is a finitely generated. This implies that the abelian group $A(K)$ has a unique decomposition of the form \[ A(K)\simeq \Z^r \oplus T, \] where the finite group $T$ is the torsion subgroup $T$, and the nonnegative integer $r$ is the Mordell-Weil rank of $A$.
The torsion subgroup $T$ can always be expressed as the product of at most $2g$ cyclic groups, where $g$ is the dimension of $A$.
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- g2c.analytic_rank
- g2c.analytic_sha
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- g2c.conditional_mw_group
- g2c.jacobian
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- rcs.rigor.g2c
- rcs.source.g2c
- lmfdb/genus2_curves/templates/g2c_curve.html (lines 152-155)
- 2020-01-08 09:07:31 by Andrew Sutherland (Reviewed)
- 2020-01-06 14:20:07 by Andrew Sutherland (Reviewed)
- 2015-08-03 16:01:33 by Andrew Sutherland (Reviewed)