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Explicit 4-descents on an elliptic curve

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, England

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elliptic curves, Computational Number Theory

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Acta Arithmetica
1996/77/4
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Pages:
385-404
Main language of publication
English
Received
1996-03-05
Published
1996
Exact and natural sciences