Generalized common-divisor conjecture for elliptic curves over function fields

Let KK be a characteristic-zero function field, let E1/KE_1/K and E2/KE_2/K be elliptic curves, and let P1E1(K)P_1\in E_1(K) and P2E2(K)P_2\in E_2(K) be KK-independent, meaning that no nonzero isogenies defined over KK identify a nontrivial multiple of one point with an isogenous image of the other. Define GCD(P1,P2)\operatorname{GCD}(P_1,P_2) as the greatest common divisor of the pullbacks of the zero sections along the corresponding sections. Generalized common-divisor conjecture. There is a constant c=c(K,E1,E2,P1,P2)c=c(K,E_1,E_2,P_1,P_2) such that

degGCD(n1P1,n2P2)cfor all n1,n21.\deg\operatorname{GCD}(n_1P_1,n_2P_2)\le c\qquad\text{for all }n_1,n_2\ge1.

Furthermore,

GCD(nP1,nP2)=GCD(P1,P2)\operatorname{GCD}(nP_1,nP_2)=\operatorname{GCD}(P_1,P_2)

for infinitely many n1n\ge1. This extends the same-curve, same-function-field formulation; the source presents it as a conjectural generalization and does not establish it in full.

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Joseph H. Silverman, “Common Divisors of Elliptic Divisibility Sequences over Function Fields”, arXiv:math/0402016 (2004).

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