Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Background and conventions
- Chapter 1 Curves of genus 2
- Chapter 2 Construction of the jacobian
- Chapter 3 The Kummer surface
- Chapter 4 The dual of the Kummer
- Chapter 5 Weddle's surface
- Chapter 6 ℭ/2ℭ
- Chapter 7 The jacobian over local fields. Formal groups
- Chapter 8 Torsion
- Chapter 9 The isogeny. Theory
- Chapter 10 The isogeny. Applications
- Chapter 11 Computing the Mordell-Weil group
- Chapter 12 Heights
- Chapter 13 Rational points. Chabauty's Theorem
- Chapter 14 Reducible jacobians
- Chapter 15 The endomorphism ring
- Chapter 16 The desingularized Kummer
- Chapter 17 A neoclassical approach
- Chapter 18 Zukunftsmusik
- Appendix I MAPLE programs
- Appendix II Files available by anonymous ftp
- Bibliography
- Index rerum et personarum
Chapter 3 - The Kummer surface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Background and conventions
- Chapter 1 Curves of genus 2
- Chapter 2 Construction of the jacobian
- Chapter 3 The Kummer surface
- Chapter 4 The dual of the Kummer
- Chapter 5 Weddle's surface
- Chapter 6 ℭ/2ℭ
- Chapter 7 The jacobian over local fields. Formal groups
- Chapter 8 Torsion
- Chapter 9 The isogeny. Theory
- Chapter 10 The isogeny. Applications
- Chapter 11 Computing the Mordell-Weil group
- Chapter 12 Heights
- Chapter 13 Rational points. Chabauty's Theorem
- Chapter 14 Reducible jacobians
- Chapter 15 The endomorphism ring
- Chapter 16 The desingularized Kummer
- Chapter 17 A neoclassical approach
- Chapter 18 Zukunftsmusik
- Appendix I MAPLE programs
- Appendix II Files available by anonymous ftp
- Bibliography
- Index rerum et personarum
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996