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What is a twisted D-module?
Let $X/\mathbb{C}$ be an abelian variety, $Y$ be the dual abelian variety, and $P$ be the Poincaré bundle on $X\times Y$. On p.207, Correction to “Sheaves with connection on abelian varieties” (by M. ...
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Generalization of $j(E) \in \overline { \Bbb{Z}}$ to abelian varieties of arbitrary dimension
Let $E/ \Bbb{C}$ be an elliptic curve which has complex multiplication over a number field $K$.
Then it is widely known that $j(E) \in \overline { \Bbb{Z}}$.
What is the known generalization of this ...
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Is a complex algebraic set with a Zariski dense subset of algebraic points already defined over the algebraic numbers?
This is a cross-post! For the original post on SE (9 upvotes, no answer) see:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4475853/is-a-complex-algebraic-set-with-a-zariski-dense-subset-of-algebraic-...
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Relation between positive roots of $E_8$ and $\mathbb{F}_2^8 \setminus \{0\}$
There exists an explicit bijection (due to Cayley, that has built up a very nice table to describe this) between the positive roots of the lattice $E_7$ and $\mathbb{F}_2^6 \setminus \{0\}$ (where $\...
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How does the number of connected components of the Néron model change in a family of abelian varieties?
Given an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}_p$, it is known that the component group of the Néron model of $E$ is cyclic of order $-v(j(E))$ when $E$ has split multiplicative reduction, and in all other ...
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What is the pull-back of a polarization of abelian schemes over different bases?
The following came up when reading the definition of the moduli stack of principally polarized abelian varieties in [1].
Let $\pi_1:A_1 \to S_1$ and $\pi_2: A_2 \to S_2$ be abelian schemes over $S_i$, ...
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A constructive proof of the theorem of the cube
Do you know a constructive proof of the theorem of the cube ? More precisely, let $X$, $Y$, $Z$ be projective varieties (e.g., over an algebraically closed field $k$) with points $x$, $y$, $z$ ...
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How to explain the relationship between Tate–Shafarevich and Ideal Class Group, when all else fails?
In the short paper On the Tate–Shafarevich group of a number field of Sameer Kailasa, he reviews a curious phenomenon by which the class group of a number field $K$ appears as the exact kernel of the ...
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Smooth symmetric divisors in abelian varieties without points of order $2$
Let $X=V/\Lambda$ be a complex abelian variety of dimension $g$, endowed with a polarization $M$ of type $(d_1, \ldots, d_g)$. A divisor $D \in |M|$ is called symmetric if $(-1)_X^*D=D$, namely if it ...
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What does the Néron model of the dual abelian variety parametrize?
Let $K$ be a field which is complete with respect to a discrete valuation $v$ with ring of integers $R$ and residue field $k$. Let $A$ an abelian variety over $K$ and let $A^t$ be the dual abelian ...
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Can I calculate congruent zeta function of given hyperelliptic curve by hand?
How can I calculate the numerator of congruent zeta function of given hyperelliptic curve ?
For example, let $C:y^2=(x^2+1)(x^4-8x^3+2x^2+8x+1)$.
numerator of congruent zeta function mod$23$ of this ...
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Do rational maps to abelian varieties extend across rational singularities?
Let $X$ be a normal proper variety with only rational singularities and $A$ an abelian variety. Does a rational map $X \supset U \to A$ extend to a morphism $X \to A$? If not, what is a ...
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Relative compactification without resolutions of singularities
Let $Y$ be a smooth proper variety over a field $k$, let $X$ be a smooth variety over $k$, $U\hookrightarrow X$ the complement of a strict normal crossing divisor and $\phi\colon U\to Y$ a map. By ...
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"Vanishing locus" of forms in the $h$-topology
Let $\Omega_{h}^p$ be the sheaf of $p$-forms in the $h$-topology defined as the sheafification for the $h$-topology of the presheaf,
$$ Y \mapsto \Omega^p_Y(Y) $$
Kebekus and Schnell show that when $X$...
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Reference request. Finiteness of the Selmer group
Let $K$ be a global field (ie either a number field or the function field of a curve over a finite field). Let $A,B$ be abelian varieties over $K$ and let $\phi:A\to B$ be an isogeny. Associated with $...
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Is it possible to lift a pair of points on an elliptic $\mathbb{F}_{\!q}$-curve to a pair of short points on an elliptic $\mathbb{F}_{\!q}(t)$-curve?
Let $E$ be an (ordinary) elliptic curve over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{\!q}$ of a (quite large) characteristic. For simplicity, suppose that $E(\mathbb{F}_{\!q})$ is a prime group. In addition, let $...
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Is the universal object over a Hilbert scheme connected?
Hartshorne proved in his thesis that if $S$ is connected, then the Hilbert scheme $\operatorname{Hilb}^p=\operatorname{Hilb}^p(\mathbb{P}^n_S/S)$ is too (where $p\in \mathbb{Q}[z]$). Can the same be ...
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Moduli space of abelian surfaces
Let $K$ be a finite field with algebraic closure $\overline{K}$. The $j$-invariant gives a bijection between the the affine line $\mathbb{A}_K^1$ and $\overline{K}$-isomorphism classes of elliptic ...
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Bad primes of twists of modular curves $X_E^{-1}(p)$
I am interested in a good reference for reading about primes of bad reduction for the modular curve $X_E^{-}(N)$, which is a twist of $X(N)$ parametrizing all elliptic curves $E'$ whose $N$-torsion ...
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Does Albanese construction yield a morphism to moduli of abelian varieties?
Let $M_h$ be the (coarse) moduli space of polarized manifolds with Hilbert function $h$. I would like to know if the albanese $Alb(X)$ of a polarized manifold $X$ gives rise to a morphism $M_h\to A_{g,...
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What are the possibilities of the general fibres in an Iitaka fibration?
This question is motivated by complex algebraic geometry.
If $X$ is a complex algebraic variety with Kodaira dimension in $[1,\dim X-1]$, then the Iitaka fibration (the rational map induced by the ...
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Proof of rigidity lemma
I have problems to understand a proof in this paper by Pierrick Dartois on Abelian varieties:
Theorem 1.13 (rigidity lemma). Let $ \varphi: X \times_k Y \to Z$ be a morphism of $k$-schemes. Assume ...
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Torsion of Fermat hypersurfaces
An interesting invariant of a rationally chain-connected variety $X/k$ is the exponent of the group,
$$ \ker{(\mathrm{CH}_0(X_K) \xrightarrow{\deg} \mathbb{Z})} $$
where $K = k(X)$ is the function ...
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Boundary divisor of an equivariant compactification of a non-trivial twist of $\mathbb{G}_a^n$
Let $K$ be a non-perfect field of positive characteristic. Then there exist non-trivial forms of $\mathbb{G}_a^n$ which split over finite purely inseparable extensions of $K$, i.e., algebraic groups $...
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Cup products and correspondences
Suppose $X$ is a smooth projective complex variety, connected of dimension $n$.
Let $a$ be an algebraic correspondence in $A^n(X\times X)$, the group of cycles modulo homological equivalence in $H^{2n}...
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Reduction step to $k=\bar{k}$ in the proof of rigidity lemma
I do not understand the following proof in the paper Abelian varieties by Edixhoven, van der Geert, and Moonen:
(1.12) Rigidity Lemma. Let $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ be algebraic varieties over a field $k$. ...
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The reduction map on the $\ell$-primary torsion of abelian variety
Let $A/\mathbb{Q}$ be an abelian variety with good reduction at a prime $p$. Assume $\mathcal{A}/\mathbb{Z}_{(p)}$ is an integral model at $p$(hence proper smooth).
For any number field $K$ and any ...
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Dimension of a kernel of a cocycle map
Inspired by a previous question (Dimension of a kernel of a linear map) and some of the answers I was given I thought wheter I can generalize the question to the following:
Compute the kernel (or at ...
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(Finer) analogue between Fourier transform and (Fourier-)Mukai transform
Mukai transform gives a derived equivalence between the (bounded) derived category of coherent sheaves $D^b_{\mathrm{coh}}(A)$ of abelian variety $A$ and that of dual $A^\vee$, $D_{\mathrm{coh}}^{b}(A^...
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Do there exist elliptic curves over $H_K$ having everywhere good reduction and CM by $\mathcal{O}_K$?
For $K$ a number field, denote by $\mathcal{O}_K$ its ring of integers and by $H_K$ its Hilbert class field.
For which imaginary quadratic field $K$ does there exist an elliptic curve $E$, defined ...
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Points with residue fields having big inseparability degree cannot be contained in smooth hypersurfaces
Let $X$ be a $k$-scheme over imperfect field $k$ and $x \in X $ some (reduced) point with residue field $\kappa(x) = \mathcal{O}_{X,x}/ \mathfrak{m}_x$. How to check that if $\kappa(x)$ has "big ...
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What's a right parameter space of abelian varieties over a non algebraically closed fields?
Let $k$ be a field of characteristic not 2 or 3. Then the set of elliptic curves over $k$ can be parametrized by the affine variety $S=D(4a^3+27b^2)\subset\mathbb{A}^2_k$ via the family $E\to S$ where ...
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Can you find a Darboux basis for any skew integral form on a full-rank lattice in $ℂ^n$ so that the first $n$ vectors are $ℂ$-linearly independent?
Any skew bilinear form $\omega$ on $\mathbb{Z}^{2n}$ can be brought into the form
\begin{equation}
\begin{pmatrix}
0 & \Delta \\
-\Delta & 0
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Reference for torsion-freeness of the group of correspondences on a smooth projective variety
In Beauville's "Variétés de Prym et jacobiennes intermédiaires", Proposition 3.5, it is claimed that $\textrm{Corr}(T)$ is torsion-free for a smooth projective variety $T$. Here $$\textrm{...
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Matrix description for automorphisms of genus $2$ curve split into two copies of an elliptic curve
Consider a genus $2$ curve $C$ and its Jacobian $J$ (for simplicity, over the field $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ or $\mathbb{C}$). Assume that $J$ is $(2,2)$-isogenous to the direct square $E^2$ of an ...
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Obstruction for points to be contained in smooth hypersurfaces in tterms of inseparability degree of residue field
Let $k$ be an imperfect field of char $p>0$ and
$x \in \mathbb{P}^n_k$ be closed point of projective space.
In this discussion Qing Liu wrote that
Over an imperfect field, a reduced point can not ...
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Map between Mordell-Weil group and Ext of (Mixed) Motives
We know that the motivic cohomology of an abelian variety $A$ over a number field $k$ computes the Mordell-Weil group up to torsion, and so if we were to grant the existence and nice behaviour of ...
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The coarse moduli schemes of the "Shimura stacks" are the canonical models of the corresponding Shimura varieties
Let $F$ be a number field, $B$ a central simple algebra over $F$, $*$ a positive involution on $B$ which fixes $F$, and
$O_B$ a maximal $O_F$-order of $B$ which is stable under $*$.
Assume that $(B, *)...
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Generic finite subgroups, associated to small finite fields, of reductive algebraic groups
Theorem 1 of [LS] Liebeck and Seitz - On the subgroup structure of exceptional groups says:
Let $X = X(q)$ be a quasisimple group of Lie type in characteristic $p$, and suppose that $X < G$, where ...
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Local global principle over infinite extension of $\Bbb{Q}$ which is not algebraically closed
Let $A$ be an algebraic variety over a field $K$, which is finite extension of $ \Bbb{Q}$.
We say local global principle holds if $A(K_v) \neq \emptyset$ implies $A(K) \neq \emptyset$, where $K_v$ is ...
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Compute de Rham-Witt sheaves
I am really new to this, but I am having a hard time understanding all the de Rham-Witt construction.
It seems to be really difficult to compute anything with those beasts: like I cannot find any ...
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Relation between divisibility problem of Shafarevich group and group structure of $Ш(E/K)$
For abelian variety $A/K$,
divisibility problem (i.e. $\forall n≧1$, $Ш(A/K)⊂p^nH^1(G_K,A)$ holds for fixed prime $p$?) was asked by Cassels in 1962 and even now discussed.
On the other hand, once ...
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What does Colmez's conjecture tell us?
There is the well known conjecture of Colmez, which describes the logarithmic derivative of the $L$-function of a character via the periods of CM-abelian varieties. Equivalently it describes the ...
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When is $R$ a direct summand of Frobenius pushforwards?
Let $(R,\mathfrak m)$ be a reduced Noetherian local ring of prime characteristic $p$. For integer $e>0$, let $F^e_* R$ denote the $R$-module which is $R$ as an abelian group, but the $R$-module ...
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Are there any quadratic functions on an abelian variety not from the height machine?
Let $X$ be an abelian variety defined over a number field $K$. We know that the Neron--Tate height machine associates to a class in the Picard group of $X$ a unique quadratic function which is zero at ...
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Resolution of singularities of the resultant locus
We consider projective space of dimension $n$ as the parameter space of degree $n$ polynomials in one variable. Then, I am interested in resolving the singularities of the "resultant locus" $...
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Difference between stabilizer and automorphism group of subvariety of an abelian variety
Let $X$ be a smooth closed subvariety of a complex abelian variety $A$. Assume $X$ is of general type and of codimension one with $\omega_X$ ample.
Often, people speak about the stabilizer $\mathrm{...
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Abelian variety with CM defined over real numbers
Is there an abelian variety $A/\mathbb R$ of dimension $n$ such that $End_{\mathbb R}(A)\otimes \mathbb Q$ contains a field $K$ of degree $[K:\mathbb Q]=2n$? ($End_{\mathbb R}(A)$ is the ring of $\...
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Ampleness of the normal bundle to the Albanese image
Let $X$ be a projective surface of general type over $\mathbb{C}$, and assume that $\Omega_X$ is globally generated. Then the Albanese map $a \colon X \to \operatorname{Alb}(X)$ is a local embedding ...
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Which schemes are divisors of an abelian variety?
Let $X$ be a smooth, projective ireducible scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$. I'm trying to understand when there exists an abelian variety $A$ such that $X$ is isomorphic to a prime ...
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