Indeed I was (am) only interested in the case of char != 2,3. Its should be 
easy to add the missing cases, tough. 


On Friday, May 9, 2014 5:05:30 PM UTC+2, John Cremona wrote:
>
> It is quite likely that the implementation of Jacobian for plane cubics 
> does not work in characteristic 3 (at least in general).  I had something 
> to do with early implementations but then it was all rewritten in terms of 
> Jacobians, so I cannot remember the details.  Perhaps Volker Braun can 
> comment.  You yourself can look at the code which is run to see what you 
> think -- and of course you are more than welcome to add code for char. 3.
>
> John Cremona
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 12:16, Gabriel Furstenheim Milerud 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> I'd like to create an elliptic curve from a degree 3 polynomial without a 
>> base point, but when I use the Jacobian method I get a "division by zero" 
>> error. 
>>
>> This is my data:
>> A=GF(3^2,'c')
>> S.<a,b,c>=A[]
>> gS=a^3 - a^2*b + b^3 - a^2*c - a*b*c + b^2*c + a*c^2 + b*c^2 + c^3
>> Jacobian(gS)
>>
>> My intuition is that Jacobian tries to compute a short Weierstrass 
>> polynomial and this is not necessarily possible in characteristic 3 (I 
>> didn't have any problem in characteristic 5). I also checked that the curve 
>> was smooth, so it is indeed genus 1
>>
>> Is there any way to make it work?
>>
>>
>> This is the error I get:
>>  
>> "Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "sag.py", line 16, in <module>
>>     Jacobian(gS)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/jacobian.py",
>>  
>> line 116, in Jacobian
>>     return Jacobian_of_equation(X, **kwds)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/jacobian.py",
>>  
>> line 225, in Jacobian_of_equation
>>     f, g = WeierstrassForm(polynomial, variables=variables)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/schemes/toric/weierstrass.py",
>>  
>> line 506, in WeierstrassForm
>>     return WeierstrassForm_P2(polynomial, variables)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/schemes/toric/weierstrass.py",
>>  
>> line 771, in WeierstrassForm_P2
>>     S = cubic.S_invariant()
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/rings/invariant_theory.py",
>>  
>> line 1769, in S_invariant
>>     a,b,c,a2,a3,b1,b3,c1,c2,m = self.scaled_coeffs()
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/sagemath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/rings/invariant_theory.py",
>>  
>> line 1753, in scaled_coeffs
>>     1/F(3)*a[3], 1/F(3)*a[4], 1/F(3)*a[5],
>>   File "element.pyx", line 1813, in 
>> sage.structure.element.RingElement.__div__ (sage/structure/element.c:15219)
>>   File "coerce.pyx", line 783, in 
>> sage.structure.coerce.CoercionModel_cache_maps.bin_op 
>> (sage/structure/coerce.c:7325)
>>   File "element.pyx", line 1811, in 
>> sage.structure.element.RingElement.__div__ (sage/structure/element.c:15198)
>>   File "element_givaro.pyx", line 1201, in 
>> sage.rings.finite_rings.element_givaro.FiniteField_givaroElement._div_ 
>> (sage/rings/finite_rings/element_givaro.cpp:10695)"
>>
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