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Subgroups-ideals correspondence for abelian varieties over $\mathbf{F}_p$
The question I have arose while reading Waterhouse's Thesis (Abelian varieties over finite fields. Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 2 1969 521–560.), and motivates another question I recently asked.
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If $p=0$ and $df=0$, is $f$ a $p$th power?
This question is a follow-up to When does the relative differential $df=0$ imply that $f$ comes from the base?. There it was asked, for an $A$-algebra $B$, under what conditions does $df=0$ (in the ...
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p-divisible group over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p arises from abelian variety
It may be trivially true or trivially false, just a quick ask, if $k=\overline{k}$ and char k = p>0, X is a p-divisible group over $k$, suppose the Newton polygon of $X$ is symmetric, then there ...
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Weil pairing as an algebraic cycle?
Is there an algebraic cycle corresponding to the Weil pairing on an abelian variety (of dim>1)? Ideally I'd like to see an example as explicit as possible, e.g.
an explicitly given variety of dim>1 ...
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CM abelian variety from an algebraic Hecke character?
Hi,
Given an algebraic Hecke character $\chi$ of a number field $k$ there should be a
"rank 1 CM-motive" $M$ with
$\overline Q$-coefficients such that $L(s,M) = L(s,\chi)$. This follows from the ...
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deRham cohomoloy of CM liftings of Jacobians
Let $k$ be field of characteristic $p>0$ and $W=W(k)$ the ring of Witt vectors of $k$. We call a smooth curve over $k$, ordinary, when the Jacobian of $J(X)$ of $X$ is an ordinary abelian variety. ...
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Abelian varieties/$p$-divisible groups are an integral category
A preabelian category is called integral if epimorphisms are stable
under pullbacks and monomorphisms are stable under pushouts.
A major property of integral category is that by inverting bimorphisms ...
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A subring of the Serre Swinnerton -Dyer ring of level N modular power series
Suppose ell is prime and (N,ell)=1. Consider those power series over Z that are expansions at infinity of modular forms for gamma_0 (N) of weight a multiple of ell-1. I'll say that an element of (Z/...
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modern reference for Néron's "Quasi-fonctions et Hauteurs sur les Varietes Abeliennes"
Is there a modern reference for Néron's "Quasi-fonctions et Hauteurs sur les Varietes Abeliennes" http://www.jstor.org/pss/1970644 i.e. using Grothendieck's language of schemes and in English?
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"Higher" Tangent spaces in char-p geometry - definition?
Hi, everyone!
I have some construction that requires exact definition.
I considered polynomial homomorphisms from $\Bbbk$ to $U_n(\Bbbk)$ (unitriangular matrices), where $char \Bbbk = p>0$ (more ...
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field of definition of abelian varieties with extra endormorphism
Let $A$ be a complex abelian variety such that $\mathrm{End}(A)$ is strictly bigger than $\mathbb{Z}$.
Question: Is is true that $A$ is defined over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$?
This is of course what ...
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Do $Q_l$-etale Euler characteristics of Chow motives coincide for all $l$?
I am interested in (Chow) motives over (algebraically closed) characteristic $p>0$ fields. For $H$ being $\mathbb{Q}_l$-adic cohomology, one can consider $Ch_l(M)=\sum (-1)^i\dim_{\mathbb{Q}_l} H^i(...
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DeRham cohomology
The Poincare lemma fails in positive characteristic, since pth powers vanish under differention. My question is : is there still some kind of resolution of the local system k by considering some ...
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A strange logical implication in algebraic geometry
So there's an old theorem of Lang and Weil showing that the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields implies a kind of quasi-riemann hypothesis for surfaces over finite fields.
I am wondering:...
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Invertible Hasse-Witt for non-ordinary curves
Assume that $S$ is a smooth curve of over a field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$ and $f\colon X\to S$ is a relative curve over $S$ (i.e., the fibers are curves). It is well-known that when all the ...
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Where can I find a copy of Serre's Cours au college de France 1985-1986?
Hi,
I was wondering: where might I be able to find a copy of this work online?
And are there any other resources for the proof of the open image theorem for abelian varieties with endomorphism ring ...
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What is the closure of product loci in A_g?
Let $A_g$ denote the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension $g$. For any partition of $g$, one can consider the corresponding locus inside $A_g$ of products of lower-...
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relationship between pairings on principally polarized abelian varieties
Let $X$ be a $g$-dimensional principally polarized abelian variety over $\mathbb{C}$, for example the jacobian of a curve of genus $g$. Let $X = \mathbb{C}^{g}/\Lambda$ where $\Lambda$ is a full $\...
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Good reduction of isogenous abelian varieties over finitely generated fields
Let $K$ be a finitely generated field over $\mathbb{Q}$.
Let $A$ and $B$ be abelian varieties over a field $K$, isogenous over some finite extension $L$ of $K$.
I want to ask if they have the same ...
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Can an abelian variety be represented as the cohomology of some other object?
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Given an abelian variety $V$ and an integer $n$, is there a natural abelian category with a natural object $X$ and natural coefficients $F$ so that $V\simeq H^n (X,F)$?
Motivation
Studying ...
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Unicritical rational functions on curves in characteristic $p$
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic $p$, and let $X_{/k}$ be a smooth projective connected curve. Let $x_0$ be a point of $X(k)$.
How precisely can one describe the ...
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Beilinson-Bernstein localization in positive characteristic
This is a follow-up to this question; in particular, I'm wondering if anyone can expand upon the interesting answers given by Kevin McGerty and David Ben-Zvi there. (In particular, in this question I'...
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Classification of fibres in pencils of curves of genus two
For the case of characteristic positive, there exist some clasification of families of curves of genus two over a elliptic curve?.
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descent of a complex of sheaves
Let X a projective variety over an algebraically closed field on which an abelian variety $A$ acts freely.
Then $X/A$ is a projective variety. Let $f:X\rightarrow X/A$
Let $K\in D_{c}^{\leq 0}(X,\bar{...
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Do permutation modules of solvable groups have self-dual socle in characteristic 2?
I was searching through the small groups database in GAP to find counterexamples to a certain conjecture (which is not important here). I was checking non-nilpotent solvable groups and noticed that ...
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étale cohomology with values in the $\ell$-torsion of an Abelian scheme
Let $S/\mathbf{F}_q$ be a $d$-dimensional smooth projective variety and $A/S$ be an Abelian scheme. Is there an easy description of $H^0(S, A(\ell)(d-1))$?` ($A(\ell)$ = union of $A_{\ell^n}$)
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do commutative groups torsors have a point in an Abelian extension of the base field?
Let $A$ be a principal homogeneous space for a commutative algebraic group defined over a field $k$ that contains all roots of unity. Is it true that $A$ has a $K$-point for an extension $K \supset k$ ...
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The Schrodinger representation on the space of sections of a general $(1,3)$-polarized abelian surface
This question arose while I was studying some finite covers of abelian surfaces.
Let $(A, \mathscr{L})$ be a $(1,3)$-polarized abelian surface over the complex numbers and consider the vector space $...
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p-divisible groups of superspecial abelian varieties
Let $p$ be a prime and $F$ be an algebraic closure of the field with p elements. I will consider abelian varieties over F up to prime-to-$p$ isogeny. Principal polarizations will be $Q$-homogeneous ...
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Construction of RM abelian variety from eigenform
Let $f$ be a normalized eigenform of weight $2$ level $N$. If the Fourier coefficients of $f$ generate a totally real field $F$, then we associate to $f$ a system of $\ell$-adic Galois representations ...
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Automorphic representations attached to abelian varieties
Let $A$ be an abelian variety defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, of dimension $d$. It is widely expected that there is an automorphic representation $\pi_A$ of $GL(2d)/\mathbb{Q}$ whose L-function agrees ...
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Lifting abelian varieties in (the closed fiber of) a fixed Neron model
Suppose that $R$ is a dvr with field of fractions $K$ and residue field $k$ and that $A_K$ is an abelian variety over $K$ with Neron model $A$ over $R$. Then the closed fiber $A_k$ is a smooth ...
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Question on division field of abelian variety
I am wondering if the following holds or not.
Let A be an abelian variety of dimension $d\geq 1$ over $\mathbb{Q}$.
Then there is a positive number c depending on d and A such that
$[\mathbb{Q}(A[n])...
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Liftability in positive characteristic
What clsses of algebraic varieties over field of positive characteristic can be lift to $W_2(k)$?
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Notation for a canonical quotient of an abelian variety in positive characteristic
This is a light question about notation, but I received no answer in Stackexchange.
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$ and let $A=A_{/k}$ be an ordinary abelian ...
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An inseparable lift of a regular variety.
Let $X$ be a variety over an (imperfect) field $k$, that is regular as a scheme. Let $k'/k$ be an algebraic inseparable extension (I am interested in $k'$ being the perfection or the algebraic closure ...
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Why is Pic^0(C) of a curve C a variety?
Let $C$ be an abstract non-singular curve.
I'm having a hard time finding a reference for why $\text{Pic}^0(C)$ is a variety.
Any pointers towards a reference would be appreciated.
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What would be a characteristic-$p$ analogue for $C^{\infty}$-fiber bundles?
I'd like to know a notion for a morphism between algebraic varieties in characteristic $p$ that plays the role of a $C^{\infty}$-fiber bundle. It should be, in particular, flat. I'm not assuming the ...
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equation for abelian varieties with a given polarization
Let $A$ be an abelian variety of dimension g and a polarization $L$ of type $(d_1,.....,d_g)$ (let alone the case $d_i=d_j,$ $\forall i, j$). What is the degree of the generators of the homogeneous ...
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Ext of Tate-modules of abelian varieties
Let $K$ be a local field (in fact, finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$) and let $A$ and $B$ be abelian varieties over $K$.
Associated to $A$ and $B$ are the Tate-modules $T_p(A)$ and $T_p(B)$.
Both ...
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Dual Honda systems
Hello,
There is an equivalence of categories between p-divisible groups over the ring of Witt vectors $W(k)$ and the category of "Honda systems", that is couples $(M,L)$ formed by a Dieudonné module $...
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Mod m versions of the toric part of Tate modules
Let $A$ be a polarized abelian variety over a local field $K$ with residue characteristic $p$. In the course of proving that a polarized abelian variety $A/K$ has semi-stable reduction iff for all $\...
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Alterations of regular varieties
Let $X$ be a regular quasi-projective variety over a perfect field $k$. The existence of a "good compactification" of $X$, i.e. a regular projective variety $\bar{X}$ with an embedding $X\...
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possible mumford-tate groups
Consider an abelian variety $A$ over a number field, and look at the representation of its Mumford-Tate group on $H^1(A)$, restricted to the commutator subgroup. Is it possible that every element of ...
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Projectivized Normal Cone to Satake Compactification
Let $\mathcal{A}_g$ be the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties over $\mathbb{C}$.
There exists a compactification, the Satake compactification, which is minimal and has the ...
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Modular reduction of exceptional complex reflection groups
I am interested in reducing reflection representations of complex reflection groups modulo a prime $p$. For the infinite family $G(m,r,n)$, it is straightforward to get "good reduction" provided that $...
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On periods of algebraic integers modulo rational primes
I run, somewhat indirectly, into the following problem and I have no hints where to look in the literature in search for answers or clues.
Let $K$ be a number field, which we may assume Galois if it ...
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Dimension of fibres of moment maps in characteristic $p$
Suppose $G$ is a connected semisimple linear algebraic group with Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ and $X$ is a homogeneous $G$-space with isotropy subgroup $H$ (associated Lie algebra $\mathfrak{h}$) that ...
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structure of $T_\ell A$ for $A/\mathbf{F}_q$ an abelian variety
Can someone give me references for the structure of the $G_{\mathbf{F}_q}$-module $T_\ell A$, $A/\mathbf{F}_q$ an abelian variety?
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quasi-trigonal curves
I have read in the literature about quasi-trigonal curves. Such a curve C is a hyperelliptic curve X with two points p,q identified (basically a pinch). They seem to be pretty important in the theory ...
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