was introduced by Weil; before this, the term "isomorphism" was somewhat confusingly used for what is now called an isogeny.

Degree of isogeny

Let be isogeny between two algebraic groups.This mapping induces a pullback mapping between their rational function fields. Since the mapping is nontrivial, it is a field embedding and is a subfield of . The degree of the extension

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