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Invariants de classes : exemples de non-annulation en dimension sup\'erieure

Number Theory 2009-09-28 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The so-called class-invariant homomorphism ψ\psi measures the Galois module structure of torsors--under a finite flat group scheme GG--which lie in the image of a coboundary map associated to an isogeny between (N\'eron models of) abelian varieties with kernel GG. When the varieties are elliptic curves with semi-stable reduction and the order of GG is coprime to 6, is is known that the homomorphism ψ\psi vanishes on torsion points. In this paper, using Weil restrictions of elliptic curves, we give the construction, for any prime number p>2p>2, of an abelian variety AA of dimension pp endowed with an isogeny (with kernel μp\mu_p) whose coboundary map is surjective. In the case when AA has rank zero and the pp-part of the Picard group of the base is non-trivial, we obtain examples where ψ\psi does not vanishes on torsion points.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603185,
  title  = {Invariants de classes : exemples de non-annulation en dimension sup\'erieure},
  author = {Jean Gillibert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603185},
  year   = {2009}
}

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