Essential dimension of abelian varieties over number fields
Number Theory
2008-03-04 v1
Abstract
We affirmatively answer a conjecture in the preprint ``Essential dimension and algebraic stacks,'' proving that the essential dimension of an abelian variety over a number field is infinite.
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@article{arxiv.0803.0016,
title = {Essential dimension of abelian varieties over number fields},
author = {Patrick Brosnan and Ramesh Sreekantan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0016},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages. To appear in C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris. Preprint posted earlier to http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/LAG/