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AN ANALOGUE OF CIRCULAR UNITS FOR PRODUCTS OF ELLIPTIC CURVES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2004
Abstract
We construct certain elements in the motivic cohomology group $H^3_{\mathcal{M}}(E\times E',\mathbb{Q}(2))$, where $E$ and $E'$ are elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$. When $E$ is not isogenous to $E'$ these elements are analogous to circular units in real quadratic fields, as they come from modular parametrizations of the elliptic curves. We then find an analogue of the class-number formula for real quadratic fields, which specializes to the usual quadratic class-number formula when $E$ and $E'$ are quadratic twists.
AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 11F67; 14G35. Secondary 11F11; 11E45; 14G10
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- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 35 - 51
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