## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### Infinite Descent on Elliptic Curves

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math. Volume 25, Number 4 (1995), 1501-1538.

Dates
First available: 5 June 2007

Permanent link to this document
http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181072159

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/rmjm/1181072159

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1371352

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0852.11028

Subjects
Primary: 11G05: Elliptic curves over global fields [See also 14H52]
Secondary: 11Y16: Algorithms; complexity [See also 68Q25]

#### Citation

Siksek, Samir. Infinite Descent on Elliptic Curves. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 25 (1995), no. 4, 1501--1538. doi:10.1216/rmjm/1181072159. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181072159.

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