Montgomery normal form

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The Montgomery normal form[1] of an elliptic curve is a slightly different normalization from that of Weierstraß.

It has in common with the Weierstraß normal form the same important property of being symmetric about the x-axis, and hence it is just as useful and possibly more convenient in some cases for computing the point group operation by using many if not most of the same techniques.

  1. Peter L. Montgomery. “Speeding the Pollard and elliptic curve methods of factorization.” Mathematics of Computation, vol. 48, no. 177, Jan 1987, pp. 243-264. https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1987-48-177/S0025-5718-1987-0866113-7/