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Given an elliptic curve defined over a number field F, we study the algebraic structure and prove a control theorem for Wuthrich’s fine Mordell–Weil groups over a \({\mathbb {Z}}_p\)-extension of F, generalizing results of Lee on the usual Mordell–Weil groups. In the case where \(F={\mathbb {Q}}\), we show that the characteristic ideal of the Pontryagin dual of the fine Mordell–Weil group over the cyclotomic \({\mathbb {Z}}_p\)-extension coincides with Greenberg’s prediction for the characteristic ideal of the dual fine Selmer group. If furthermore E has good supersingular reduction at p with \(a_p(E)=0\), we generalize Wuthrich’s fine Mordell–Weil groups to define “plus and minus Mordell–Weil groups”. We show that the greatest common divisor of the characteristic ideals of the Pontryagin duals of these groups coincides with Kurihara–Pollack’s prediction for the greatest common divisor of the plus and minus p-adic L-functions.
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The author thanks Katharina Müller for interesting dicussions on topics studied in this article. He is also indebted to the anonymous referee for their careful reading of an earlier version of the article and their extremely helpful comments and suggestions. The author’s research is supported by the NSERC Discovery Grants Program RGPIN-2020-04259 and RGPAS-2020-00096.
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Lei, A. Algebraic structure and characteristic ideals of fine Mordell–Weil groups and plus/minus Mordell–Weil groups. Math. Z. 303, 14 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-022-03168-4
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Keywords
- Iwasawa theory
- Fine Selmer groups
- Fine Mordell–Weil groups
- Plus and minus Mordell–Weil groups
- Control theorems
- Characteristic ideals