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Andrew Shallue

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Construction Of Rational Points On Elliptic Curves Over Finite Fields, Andrew Shallue, Christiaan E. Van De Woestijne Dec 2005

Construction Of Rational Points On Elliptic Curves Over Finite Fields, Andrew Shallue, Christiaan E. Van De Woestijne

Andrew Shallue

We give a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that computes a nontrivial rational point on an elliptic curve over a finite field, given a Weierstrass equation for the curve. For this, we reduce the problem to the task of finding a rational point on a curve of genus zero.