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An elementary approach to the group law on elliptic curvesMPIM

Name: An elementary approach to the group law on elliptic curves
Start: 2025-06-04T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-04T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

by Sander Zwergers (Universität zu Köln)

Wednesday Jun 4, 2025, 2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Europe/Berlin

MPIM, Vivatsgasse, 7 - Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)

MPIM, Vivatsgasse, 7 - Lecture Hall

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

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Description

Number theory lunch seminar

We give a simple and completely elementary proof of the associativity of the addition on an elliptic curve, only using the explicit definition of the group structure. Further, we discuss the geometric interpretation of the sum of points on the elliptic curve.