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Embedding abelian varieties into projective spaces of small dimension
Recall that any smooth projective variety of dimension $g$ embeds into $\mathbf{P}^{2g+1}$. Consider now an abelian variety $A$ of dimension $g$ which embeds into $\mathbf{P}^{2g}$. Van de Ven proves (...
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When $k = \mathbb{F}_q$ finite field, $X$ always has $k$-rational point, and so $A \simeq X$?
This is a theorem of Lang's from 1956. Here's an online document giving a proof (in the form $H^1(A,k)=0$):
Lecture 14: Galois Cohomology of Abelian Varieties over Finite Fields,
William Stein. http:...
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On Tate's "Endomorphisms of Abelian Varieties over Finite Fields", sketch of proof of main result?
I don't have any contribution for the intuition beyond the fact that, I can't construct something outside the image of (1) so I hope it's surjective.
Here is a sketch of the central idea of Tate's ...
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Which hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^n$ are abelian varieties?
Really this is mostly just consolidating what has been (implicitly) said in the comments and cleaning it up a bit (e.g. using the Chow ring instead of singular cohomology), but might as well make it ...
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Is hyperelliptic cryptography "practical"?
I am not aware of anybody seriously considering hyperelliptic curves for actual real-world usage, beyond toys, and I would be rather surprised to hear differently from anyone.
As you say, ...
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Is the complement of an affine open in an abelian variety ample?
Welcome new contributor. Yes, that is true. Let $k$ be any field, let $A$ be an Abelian variety over $k$, and let $U\subset A$ be a dense open affine. Denote by $D\subset A$ the complementary ...
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Is every abelian variety a subvariety of a Jacobian?
Embed the dual abelian variety into projective space. Take a smooth hyperplane section and interate until it's one-dimensional, obtaining a smooth curve $C$. By Lefschetz $C$ is irreducible, and the ...
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Tate-Shafarevich group over number fields
No.
It is always difficult to "prove" that something is "not known", but this may do: I claim it is not even known when $K=\mathbb Q$, $A$ is an elliptic curve $E$. In fact in this case, the result ...
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Points of abelian varieties over purely transcendental extensions
This follows from the following well-known lemma.
Lemma. Let $A$ be an abelian variety over $k$. Then any map $f \colon \mathbb P^1 \to A$ is constant.
Proof 1. The map $f$ induces a map on the ...
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Canonical lift of the deformation of an ordinary abelian variety
No. The picture over a general base is this: let $A_0\to S_0$ be an ordinary abelian variety over a characteristic $p$ scheme $S_0$, and let $S_n$ ($n\geq 0$) be compatible flat liftings of $S_0$ over ...
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Torsion points of abelian variety as zeros of a section of a vector bundle?
The crucial case is $m=1$: if you have a vector bundle $E$ on $A$ of rank $\dim(A)$ and a section $s$ of $E$ whose zero locus is $\{0\} $, pulling back $(E,s)$ by multiplication by $m$ gives the ...
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When $k = \mathbb{F}_q$ finite field, $X$ always has $k$-rational point, and so $A \simeq X$?
A bit of overkill, but it follows from the Weil conjectures. The structure of cohomology ($H^i = \wedge^i H^1$) is computed over the algebraic closure and it follows that the number of points is $\...
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On the moduli stack of abelian varieties without polarization
First, when defining the stack you will have the issue that there are formal deformations of abelian varieties which do not extend to families of abelian varieties over any reduced scheme. These are ...
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Is a complex algebraic set with a Zariski dense subset of algebraic points already defined over the algebraic numbers?
More is true. Let $K/F$ be a field extension. Let $X$ be the vanishing set of some polynomials in $K[X_1,\dots, X_n]$. If $X$ contains a Zariski dense set of points with coordinates in $F$, then $X$ ...
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Albanese variety over non-perfect fields
The arguments of Serre can be in fact made to work over any separably closed field. The result in the general case can then be deduced using Galois descent. Details can be found in Section 2 and the ...
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Albanese variety over non-perfect fields
The answer is affirmative (in Serre's formulation via principal homogeneous spaces) for proper, geometrically reduced, and geometrically connected schemes $X$ over any field $k$, giving a strong ...
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Bhargava's work on the BSD conjecture
For a prime $p$ and an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}$, we have the exact sequence
$$\displaystyle 0 \rightarrow E(\mathbb{Q})/p E(\mathbb{Q}) \rightarrow S_p(E) \rightarrow \text{Sha}_E[p]\rightarrow ...
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Is every abelian variety a subvariety of a Jacobian?
Let me give an answer for $k = \mathbb{C}$.
By a theorem of Matsusaka, every abelian variety $A$ over an algebraic closed field $k$ is a quotient of a Jacobian.
Now just apply Matsusaka's theorem to ...
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Conceptual explanations of the class numbers for the first few $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p})$ with odd conductor
We give a uniform approach to $p \leq 61$ by applying
analytic discriminant bounds to the Hilbert class field.
To be sure this is not entirely "conceptual", but then
some computation is needed even to ...
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What is the Theorem of the Cube?
I'm a bit late to the party, but since these question are clearly still getting views, I'll answer the second question a bit. Given a nice category, one can form the pointed category $C$, and consider ...
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Galois action on $p$-adic Tate module of Abelian variety over finite field semisimple?
You're just asking whether Frobenius acts semsimply on the $p$-adic Tate module.
We know from Tate's theorem that Frobenius acts semisimply on the $\ell$-adic Tate module, and hence satisfies some ...
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Are there infinitely many real multiplication fields of abelian surfaces over $\mathbb Q$?
A conjecture of Coleman asserts that only finitely many rings arise as the endomorphism ring of an abelian variety of given dimension defined over a number field of given degree. See [1] for an ...
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Shafarevich conjecture for abelian varieties
Let $B$ be a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Let $K$ be the function field of $B$. Let $S$ be a finite set of closed points of $B$.
You might find ...
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Torsion points of abelian varieties in the perfect closure of a function field
The answer to question (*) is yes. It is Theorem 1.2.2 in the following preprint.
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Is the symmetric product of an abelian variety a CY variety?
When $\dim A = 1$, $S^nA$ is a $\mathbb{P}^{n-1}$-bundle over $A$, so its Kodaira dimension is $-\infty$.
When $\dim A = 2$, the minimal resolution of $S^nA$ is given by the Hilbert scheme $A^{[n]}$, ...
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Tamagawa numbers
Denote by $\Phi$ the quotient of $\mathcal A^\vee$, the special fiber of the smooth (but not necessarily proper) model of the dual abelian variety $A^\vee$, by the connected component of $0$ of $\...
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Which schemes are divisors of an abelian variety?
Any curve of genus greater than two, whose Jacobian $J$ is simple, will do. If it were a divisor on an abelian surface $S$, then there would be a surjection $J\to S$ with positive dimensional kernel, ...
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A geometric definition of the addition law on abelian surfaces
This must be standard, I don't have a reference but the construction is easy:
let $y^2=f(x)$ be a genus 2 hyperelliptic curve with $f$ squarefree of degree
$5$ or $6$. As a set the Jacobian is the ...
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Do there exist elliptic curves over $H_K$ having everywhere good reduction and CM by $\mathcal{O}_K$?
Here is an example.
Let $K = \mathbf{Q}(\sqrt{-21})$. Then the class group of $K$ is $C_2 \times C_2$ and its Hilbert class field is $H_K = \mathbf{Q}(\sqrt{-1}, \sqrt{3}, \sqrt{7})$. In particular, $...
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A "comprehensive" family of abelian varieties
Welcome new contributor. The idea of such "comprehensive" families goes back very far. These were studied by Amitsur under the name "generic splitting varieties", primarily in ...
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