On p-adic height pairings and locally free classgroups of Hopf orders

Let E be an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by the ring of integers [Ofr ] of an imaginary quadratic field K. The purpose of this paper is to describe certain connections between the arithmetic of E on the one hand and the Galois module structure of certain arithmetic principal homogeneous spaces arising from E on the other. The present paper should be regarded as a complement to [AT]; we assume that the reader is equipped with a copy of the latter paper and that he is not averse to referring to it from time to time.