Questions tagged [arithmetic-geometry]
Diophantine equations, rational points, abelian varieties, Arakelov theory, Iwasawa theory.
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Number of homomorphisms from a group to $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$
$\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Fix a group $\Gamma$ and a positive integer $n$. Let $c(q):=\lvert\Hom(\Gamma, \GL_n(\mathbb{F}_q)\rvert$ denote the number of homomorphisms ...
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Path spaces vs arc spaces
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over $\mathbf{C}$ and denote by $\mathcal{L}_m(X)$ the $m$-th jet space, a smooth $\mathbf{C}$-scheme representing the functor on $\mathbf{C}$-algebras
$$A\...
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Rank of elliptic curves, parity, finiteness of Sha
$\newcommand{\Sha}{Ш}\newcommand{\alg}{\mathrm{alg}}\DeclareMathOperator\Sel{Sel}\DeclareMathOperator\rank{rank}$
Consider the elliptic curves $E$ of $j$-invariant zero that neither them nor their ...
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Computation of the torsion of K-groups related to elliptic curves
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb Q$. Let $F$ be the rational function field of $E$.
The $K_2$ group of $F$ may be described by elements in $F^\times ⊗_\mathbb{Z} F^\times$ quotiented by the ...
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Galois invariants and tensor products
Consider a number field $K$ and a finite Galois field extension $L/K$. Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $K$ and consider the abelian group
$$E(L)\otimes L^{\times}.$$
Every element $g$ in $\text{Gal}(...
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Transition maps in trivial direct limit
If $\{X_i, i\in I\}$ is a directed system of abelian groups such that we have
$$\varinjlim_{i\in I}X_i = 0$$
is it true that for every $i$ and large enough $j\ge i$ the transition map $f_{i,j} : X_i\...
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Adèlic points and algebraic closure
Consider $\mathcal{X}$ a projective and flat scheme over $\text{Spec}(\mathcal{O}_K)$, with $\mathcal{O}_K$ the ring of integers of a number field $K$.
Let $F/K$ vary over all finite Galois number ...
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Tate-Shafarevich groups under finite Galois field extensions
Suppose $L/F$ is a finite Galois extension of number fields. Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $F$ and $E_L$ its base change to $L$.
Do we have that $\text{Sha}(E/F)$ is finite if and only if $\text{...
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Galois cohomology of abelian varieties
Suppose $A$ is an abelian variety over a number field $K$ and call $M$ the maximal torsion free quotient of $A(\overline{K})$ equipped with its Galois action.
For the first Galois cohomology of $M$, ...
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Smoothness of fibers over finite fields
Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a morphism of smooth projective varieties over a finite field of characteristic different from $2$. Is there any result on the existence of a point $y\in Y$ such that $X_y = ...
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Number of points of a quadric hypersurface over a finite field
Let $k = \mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field with $q$ elements and $Q\subset\mathbb{P}^n_k$ a quadric hypersurface defined over $k$.
By the Chevalley-Warning theorem if $n\geq 2$ then $Q$ has a point. Is ...
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Smooth surfaces in positive characteristic
Let $K = \mathbb{F}_p$ be a field of positive characteristic $p > 0$. Consider a surface in $\mathbb{A}^3_K$ of the following form
$$
S = \{f_1(x_0)y_0^2+f_2(x_0)y_0y_1+f_3(x_0)y_0+f_4(x_0)y_1^2+...
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Confusion regarding Proposition 1.1 in Wiles's Fermat paper
This is from p. 459 of Wiles's Fermat paper.
Theorem: If $D_{p}$ is a decomposition group at $p$, $A$ is an Artinian local ring with maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$ and finite residue field $k$ of ...
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Are tamely ramified representations $\widehat{\mathbb{Q}_p^\text{tr}}$-admissible?
Let $K$ be a finite field extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$. Let $G_K$ denote the absolute Galois group of $K$, $I_K$ the inertia subgroup and $I_K^{(p)}$ the $p$-Sylow subgroup of $I_K$, i.e. the wild ...
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Del Pezzo surfaces of degree four and complete intersections of two quadrics
Let $X = Q_1\cap Q_2$ be a complete intersection of two smooth quadrics, over a field $K$, in $\mathbb{P}^4$ with homogeneous coordinates $y_0,y_1,y_2,y_3,y_4$.
Set $Q_1 = \{F_1 = 0\}$ and $Q_2 = \{...
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How much results in Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry depends on the existence of a ricci-flat metric?
An important result of CY manifold is the CY theorem, it talks about the existence of a ricci-flat metric. However, this theorem and its proof are highly analytic.
There are many results about ...
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Rational points on ramified coverings of abelian varieties
Let $K$ be a number field $A$ an abelian variety over $K$ and $f: X \to A$ a possibly ramified covering of degree $d$ with $X$ a proper variety. My question is:
Suppose that $f(X(K)) \neq A(K)$, can ...
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Simultaneous rank jumping of elliptic curves over number fields
Here's something fun that I've been wondering about for a while out of curiosity. It has to do with the rank $\mathrm{rk}(E(K))$ of an elliptic curve $E$ over a number field $K$, and especially how it ...
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Counting elliptic curves over finite fields with a prescribed number of points
Let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field with ring of integers $\mathcal{O}_K$, and let $\mathcal{O}$ be an order in $K$ of discriminant $D$ and class number $h(\mathcal{O})$. Then the Hurwitz-...
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Is Galois representation induced by semistable elliptic curve semistable?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Gal{Gal}\DeclareMathOperator\Aut{Aut}$Let $E$ be a semi stable elliptic curve. Let $\overline{\rho_\ell}: \Gal(\overline{\Bbb Q}/\Bbb Q)\to \Aut (E[l]) $ be mod $\ell$ ...
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Maximum dimension of a simultaneous anisotropic subspace of quadratic forms over $ \mathbb{Q} $
Let $(V,q )$ be a quadratic space over $ \mathbb{Q} $. A subspace $ U $ is called totally isotropic if $ q(x) = 0 $ for all $ x \in U $ and a subspace $ U $ is called an anisotropic subspace if $ ...
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Is Mazur's analogy between arithmetic and topology formal, in any sense?
I preface my question by admitting I know no algebraic geometry nor algebraic number theory. I do know some algebraic topology. I'm a student.
Recently I learned about sheaf cohomology. Then a little ...
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Lines on quadric surfaces
Consider a smooth quadric surface $Q\subset\mathbb{P}^3$ over a field $k$. Are there natural hypotheses one can put on $k$ in order to ensure the existence of a line defined over $k$ on $Q$?
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About Definition 2 in Roĭtman's Paper
Let $A(X)$ be the Chow group of $0$-cycles on a nonsingular irreducible projective variety $X$ over an uncountable algebraically closed field of characteristic zero.
In Definition 2 of Roĭtman's paper ...
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integral points on elliptic curves in terms of discriminant
I am curios where in the literature was the first time written the following conjecture.
Say we have we have an elliptic curve $E$ given by the Weierstrass equation $y^2=x^3+AX+B$ with $A,B\in \...
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Drawing a 3D object in a 3D environment, and converting to math [closed]
So I have been granted a free time and I want to work on a project but first I had to research.
As we know, lines have infinite points, and with lines, we can create infinite shapes. I want to let ...
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Birational geometry over finite fields
I apologize in advance since probably my questions are very naive. I would like to understand some central notions in birational geometry, that are clear to me over the complex numbers, for varieties ...
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Torsion points of an elliptic curve over number fields. Another proof of Silverman AEC theorem
I am studying the following theorem from Silverman's AEC:
I am wondering whether there exists another proof that doesn't make use of formal groups and is still valid for a number field $K$. Could you ...
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Are unramified simple Rapoport-Zink spaces smooth?
I have read on different occasions that unramified simple Rapoport-Zink spaces are formally smooth, eg. stated in Remark 4.13 of Rapoport and Viehman's survey article. These spaces are formal schemes $...
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Smooth proper varieties over the integers that are not toric
Does there exist a smooth proper variety $X$ over $\operatorname{Spec} \mathbb Z$ that is not toric?
By Fontaine, we know that there is no Abelian scheme over $\operatorname{Spec} \mathbb Z$. Also by ...
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Embedding torsors of elliptic curves into projective space
Suppose I have a genus 1 curve $C$ over a field $k$. If $C$ has a point, then we can embed it into the projective plane by a Weierstrass equation. Now let us suppose that $C$ does not have a point (so ...
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Explicit defining equations for del Pezzo surfaces
Are there known explicit parametrizations of smooth del Pezzo surfaces, say of degree $5$ or higher, as surfaces cut out by equations in some projective space?
The closest I've been able to find is on ...
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L-functions and Galois representations: What’s the explicit relation?
It was mentioned in a lecture on Faltings’s proof of Mordell Conjecture that there’s some kind of correspondence between Galois representation (of cohomology, or some complex of constructible sheaves?)...
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Reference request: the geometry of vanishing cycle
I’m currently studying basics on étale cohomology, by Fu’s and Milne’s book. The formalization of vanishing cycle and nearby cycle particularly interests me. I realized it may relate with reduction ...
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Relative homology in Fargues-Scholze paper
if $f:X\to Y$ is a map of small v-stacks, Scholze and Fargues define relative homology as the left adjoint to the $f^{\star}$. They say the left adjoint exist because $f$ is a slice in $v$-site (they ...
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Does the construction of arithmetic toroidal compactification of $A_{g}$ depend on semistable reduction theorem?
If there is a good theory of arithmetic toroidal compactification over $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ of the Siegel modular variety with deep enough level structure, then it seems like semistable reduction theorem ...
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Constructing motivic representations through extensions of $\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})$
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$In the Esquisse, Grothendieck explains how to find the representations of $G_{\mathbb{Q}}$ on Tate modules of Jacobians through its action on $\...
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Grothendieck group of admissible $p$-adic representations
Let $K$ be a $p$-adic local field; $G = \mathop{\mathrm{Gal}}(\overline K | K)$; $\tau \in \{\text{HT}, \text{dR}, \text{crys}\}$, $B_\tau$ the corresponding period ring; $\mathop{\mathrm{Rep}}_{\...
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Number of rational points over finite fields mod $q$ is birational invariant
I heard that if $\mathbf F_q$ is a finite field, $X, Y$ are birational smooth proper variety over $\mathbf F_q$, then $\#(X(\mathbf F_q)) \equiv \#(Y(\mathbf F_q)) \pmod q$, and I heard that the proof ...
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Could the Weil zeroes of curves be evenly distributed?
If $X$ is a smooth, geometrically connected, projective curve of genus $g$
over $\mathbb{F}_q$, then the zeta function of $X$ is of the form $P(s)/(1 - s)(1 - qs)$, where $P(s)$ is a polynomial of ...
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Why geometric generic point (in abstract algebraic geometry) replace general points in the unit disk?
In section 4.1, chapter 4 of Pierre Deligne's paper La conjecture de Weil : I (french version, translation to English) he states:
On $\mathbb{C}$ Lefshietz local results are as follows. Let $X$ be a ...
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Explicit toroidal compactification of Hilbert modular varieties
Hirzebruch's construction of toroidal compactification of Hilbert modular surfaces is explicit, namely one can explicitly choose rational polyhedral cone decomposition in a sort of optimal way using ...
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Meaning of "the" general fiber in the paper "La conjecture de Weil : I"
In section 4.1, chapter 4 of Pierre Deligne's paper La conjecture de Weil : I (french version, translation to English) he states:
Let $X$ be a non singular analytic space and purely of dimension $n+1$....
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To justify the intuition about #$E(\Bbb Q_p)$=$∞$
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve on $\Bbb Q_p$.
$E_0(\Bbb Q_p)$ is points of $E(\Bbb Q_p)$ reduced to nonsingular points.
How to prove #$E(\Bbb Q_p)$=$∞$ directly ?
According to Silverman's book 'the ...
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Does every non-isotrivial 1-parameter family of elliptic curves have a positive rank specialization?
Let $\mathcal{E}/\mathbb{Q}(t)$ be given by $$y^2=x^3+A(T)x+B(T)$$ for some $A(T),B(T)\in\mathbb{Q}[T]$ and assume $\mathcal{E}$ is non-isotrivial (the $j$-invariant $\frac{6912 A(T)^3}{4A(T)^3 + 27B(...
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Proof of Lemma 6.5 in Scholze's Perfectoid Spaces
In the proof of Lemma 6.5(approximation lemma) in Scholze's Perfectoid Spaces,
I have the following three questions about $h = f - g^\sharp_c$ and $g^\sharp_{c'}$.
(Maybe it's something you'll find ...
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Relation between rational Tate module and universal cover of a p-divisible group
We can associate two $\mathbb Q_p$ vector spaces to a $p$-divisible group, and I'm a little confused about the relation between these two groups. First of all, I think part of my problem is that when ...
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diagonal cubic hypersurfaces
At the end of
https://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Cubic_hypersurface#References
it is stated that the diagonal cubic hypersurface
$$
\sum_{i=0}^{2m+1} a_i x_i^3 = 0, m\ge 2
$$
(and ...
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Does Lemma 5.4 in Deligne's Ramanujan paper generalize to Shimura varieties of PEL type?
It is generally not known if a smooth variety over a perfect field embeds into a smooth proper variety.
Lemma 5.4 in Formes modulaires et représentations $\ell$-adiques provides such an embedding for ...
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Cohomology theories for algebraic varieties over number fields
There is a standard line which is repeated by anyone writing/talking about motives and cohomology of algebraic varieties over number fields: namely, there are many such cohomologies and then the ...