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L-series and isogenies of abelian varieties

Number Theory 2019-04-19 v3

Abstract

Faltings's isogeny theorem states that two abelian varieties are isogenous over a number field precisely when the characteristic polynomials of the reductions at almost all prime ideals of the number field agree. This implies that two abelian varieties over Q\mathbb{Q} with the same LL-series are necessarily isogenous, but this is false over a general number field. Let AA and AA' be two abelian varieties, defined over number fields KK and KK' respectively. Our main result is that AA and AA' are isogenous after a suitable isomorphism between KK and KK' if and only if the Dirichlet character groups of KK and KK' are isomorphic and the LL-series of AA and AA' twisted by the Dirichlet characters match.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06894,
  title  = {L-series and isogenies of abelian varieties},
  author = {Harry Smit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06894},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages, the notation section of this article overlaps partially with arXiv:1901.06198. Added a proof for CM elliptic curves in the case of quadratic twists