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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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The profinite topology on the Mordell Weil group

In this lecture of Serre on his open image theorem, around 6 minutes, Serre mentions the following theorem of Tate: Let $A/k$ be an abelian variety over a number field and consider the Mordell-Weil ...
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Selmer Group versus Selmer Variety

For an abelian variety $A$, the $p$-adic Selmer group is defined to be the subset of $H^1(G_k,H_1^{et}(A;\mathbb{Q}_{p}))$ whose restriction to $G_{k_v}$ is in the image of $A(k_v)$ for all places $v$ ...
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