%0 Journal Article %A Musa Demirci and Nazlı Yıldız İkikardeş and Gökhan Soydan and İsmail Naci Cangül %D 2007 %J International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 1, 2007 %T The Number of Rational Points on Elliptic Curves y2 = x3 + a3 on Finite Fields %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6891 %V 1 %X In this work, we consider the rational points on elliptic curves over finite fields Fp. We give results concerning the number of points Np,a on the elliptic curve y2 ≡ x3 +a3(mod p) according to whether a and x are quadratic residues or non-residues. We use two lemmas to prove the main results first of which gives the list of primes for which -1 is a quadratic residue, and the second is a result from [1]. We get the results in the case where p is a prime congruent to 5 modulo 6, while when p is a prime congruent to 1 modulo 6, there seems to be no regularity for Np,a. %P 130 - 132