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Explicit Constructions Of Canonical And Absolute Minimal Degree Lifts Of Twisted Edwards Curves, William Coleman Bitting Iv May 2023

Explicit Constructions Of Canonical And Absolute Minimal Degree Lifts Of Twisted Edwards Curves, William Coleman Bitting Iv

Doctoral Dissertations

Twisted Edwards Curves are a representation of Elliptic Curves given by the solutions of bx^2 + y^2 = 1 + ax^2y^2. Due to their simple and unified formulas for adding distinct points and doubling, Twisted Edwards Curves have found extensive applications in fields such as cryptography. In this thesis, we study the Canonical Liftings of Twisted Edwards Curves and the associated lift of points Elliptic Teichmu ̈ller Lift. The coordinate functions of the latter are proved to be polynomials, and their degrees and derivatives are computed. Moreover, an algorithm is described for explicit computations, and some properties of the general …


Coefficients Of Modular Forms And Applications To Partition Theory, Michael Anthony Hanson May 2023

Coefficients Of Modular Forms And Applications To Partition Theory, Michael Anthony Hanson

Doctoral Dissertations

We begin with an overview of the theory of modular forms as well as some relevant sub-topics in order to discuss three results: the first result concerns positivity of self-conjugate t-core partitions under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis; the second result bounds certain types of congruences called "Ramanujan congruences" for an infinite class of eta-quotients - this has an immediate application to a certain restricted partition function whose congruences have been studied in the past; the third result strengthens a previous result that relates weakly holomorphic modular forms to newforms via p-adic limits.


Computational Aspects Of Mixed Characteristic Witt Vectors And Denominators In Canonical Liftings Of Elliptic Curves, Jacob Dennerlein May 2023

Computational Aspects Of Mixed Characteristic Witt Vectors And Denominators In Canonical Liftings Of Elliptic Curves, Jacob Dennerlein

Doctoral Dissertations

Given an ordinary elliptic curve E over a field 𝕜 of characteristic p, there is an elliptic curve E over the Witt vectors W(𝕜) for which we can lift the Frobenius morphism, called the canonical lifting of E. The Weierstrass coefficients and the elliptic Teichmüller lift of E are given by rational functions over 𝔽_p that depend only on the coefficients and points of E. Finotti studied the properties of these rational functions over fields of characteristic p ≥ 5. We investigate the same properties for fields of characteristic 2 and 3, make progress on …