[sage-support] Re: Change of behaviour of mwrank in SAGE 4.3.3

2010-03-16 Thread Julian
Thank you for yor clear explanation. Julián Aguirre On 16 mar, 18:23, John Cremona wrote: > Let me explain (as the author of mwrank).    There was a bug in > mwrank, found by James Wiegandt and Edray Goins, which meant that in > some cases for curves with rational 2-torsion the computed upper bo

[sage-support] Re: Change of behaviour of mwrank in SAGE 4.3.3

2010-03-16 Thread John Cremona
Let me explain (as the author of mwrank).There was a bug in mwrank, found by James Wiegandt and Edray Goins, which meant that in some cases for curves with rational 2-torsion the computed upper bound on the rank was too high. (Technical explanation: the second descent homogensous spaces were