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Split multiplicative reduction

An elliptic curve EE defined over a number field KK is said to have split multiplicative reduction at a prime p\mathfrak{p} of KK if the reduction of EE modulo p\mathfrak{p} has a nodal singularity with both tangent slopes defined over the residue field at p\mathfrak{p}.

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