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Division by 2 on odd degree hyperelliptic curves and their jacobians

Algebraic Geometry 2019-09-04 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

Let KK be an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from 2, gg a positive integer, f(x)f(x) a degree (2g+1)(2g+1) polynomial with coefficients in KK and without multiple roots, C:y2=f(x)C:y^2=f(x) the corresponding genus gg hyperelliptic curve over K, and JJ the jacobian of CC. We identify CC with the image of its canonical embedding into JJ (the infinite point of CC goes to the identity element of JJ). It is well known that for each bJ(K)\mathfrak{b} \in J(K) there are exactly 22g2^{2g} elements aJ(K)\mathfrak{a} \in J(K) such that 2a=b2\mathfrak{a}=\mathfrak{b}. M. Stoll constructed an algorithm that provides Mumford representations of all such a\mathfrak{a}, in terms of the Mumford representation of b\mathfrak{b}. The aim of this paper is to give explicit formulas for Mumford representations of all such a\mathfrak{a}, when bJ(K)\mathfrak{b}\in J(K) is given by P=(a,b)C(K)J(K)P=(a,b) \in C(K)\subset J(K) in terms of coordinates a,ba,b. We also prove that if g>1g>1 then C(K)C(K) does not contain torsion points with order between 33 and 2g2g.

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@article{arxiv.1809.03061,
  title  = {Division by 2 on odd degree hyperelliptic curves and their jacobians},
  author = {Yuri G. Zarhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03061},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

18 pages. The paper overlaps with arXiv:1606.05252 and arXiv:1807.07008