Cassels–Tate pairing

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The Cassels–Tate pairing is a bilinear pairing on the Tate–Shafarevich group of an abelian variety over a number field that plays a central role in arithmetic geometry and the study of rational points.

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Cassels–Tate pairing canonical 2
Tate–Shafarevich group 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf bilinear pairing
construction in arithmetic geometry
mathematical concept
appearsIn formulations of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian varieties
associatedWith Tate–Shafarevich group of an elliptic curve
abelian varieties
elliptic curves
assumes global field structure of a number field
codomain Q/Z
constructionUses Galois cohomology
Weil pairing
cup product in cohomology
context Mordell–Weil group and its Selmer groups
Selmer group of an abelian variety
definedFor abelian variety over a number field
principally polarized abelian variety
definedOn Tate–Shafarevich group
Tate–Shafarevich group of an abelian variety
Tate–Shafarevich group of an abelian variety over a number field
domain Tate–Shafarevich group × Tate–Shafarevich group
field arithmetic geometry
number theory
generalizes pairing on the Tate–Shafarevich group of an elliptic curve defined by Cassels
helpsDetermine parity of the rank in some cases
is alternating
bilinear
functorial in isogenies
skew-symmetric up to sign
localComponents pairings at each completion of the number field
mathematicalDiscipline algebraic geometry
algebraic number theory
namedAfter John Tate
John W. S. Cassels
property conjecturally non-degenerate when the Tate–Shafarevich group is finite
its left and right kernels coincide with the maximal divisible subgroup of the Tate–Shafarevich group
non-degenerate modulo the maximal divisible subgroup
relatedTo Néron–Tate height pairing
Poitou–Tate duality
Weil–Châtelet group
type global duality pairing
usedIn Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
analysis of the structure of the Tate–Shafarevich group
descent theory
obstruction theory for rational points
study of rational points on abelian varieties
study of rational points on elliptic curves

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J. W. S. Cassels notableConcept Cassels–Tate pairing
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture relatesConcept Tate–Shafarevich group
linked to: Cassels–Tate pairing
John William Scott Cassels notableWork Cassels–Tate pairing