Elliptic curves and continued fractions

Alfred J. Van Der Poorten

Elliptic curves and continued fractions

Alfred J. Van Der Poorten^*

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Abstract

We detail the continued fraction expansion of the square root of the general monic quartic polynomial, noting that each line of the expansion corresponds to addition of the divisor at infinity. We analyse the data yielded by the general expansion. In that way we obtain "elliptic sequences" satisfying Somos relations. I mention several new results on such sequences. The paper includes a detailed "reminder exposition" on continued fractions of quadratic irrationals in function fields.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Integer Sequences
Volume	8
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 16 May 2005

Keywords

Continued fraction expansion
Elliptic curve
Function field of characteristic zero
Somos sequence

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Elliptic curves and continued fractions

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