Introduction to Euler systems and bounds on Tate-Shafarevich groups

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Abstract

These are transparencies I have used in an introductory lecture on Euler systems. There is quite a lot of similarity with the notes Euler systems for higher-weight modular forms but here I have tried to be more general. There is a discussion of the Kolyvagin cup product, a new description of the localization of it and a discussion of the relation between the norm and congruence relation following Kato.