Root numbers of elliptic curves over 2-adic fields

Abstract: We give formulas for the root number of an elliptic curve with potential good reduction over a local field of characteristic zero and residual characteristic two. By work of Rohrlich and Kobayashi one has explicit formulas for the root number of an elliptic curve over a local field of characteristic zero in all other cases.

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