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In the first part of this paper we give a new definition of the elliptic analogue of Sinnott’s group of circular units. In this we essentially use the ideas discussed in Oukhaba (in Ann Inst Fourier, 55(33):753–772, 2005). In the second part of the paper we are interested in computing the index of this group of elliptic units. This question is closely related to the behaviour of the universal signed ordinary distributions introduced in loc. cit. Such distributions have a natural resolution discovered by Anderson. Consequently, we can apply Ouyang’s general index formula and the powerful Anderson’s theory of double complex to make the computations
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Oukhaba, H. Elliptic units and sign functions. Math. Ann. 336, 639–657 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-006-0015-9
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