Mod-5 Galois images from abelian surfaces
Number Theory
2025-10-09 v1
Abstract
For an abelian surface, the Galois representation is typically surjective, with smaller images indicating extra arithmetic structure. It is already known how to probabilistically compute whether is surjective, and recent work by Chidambaram computes for . We probabilistically compute for the Jacobians of 95% of genus 2 curves in the L-functions and Modular Forms Database (LMFDB) for which is not yet known. For the remaining Jacobians, we determine the order of the image and give a short list of candidate images.
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@article{arxiv.2510.06423,
title = {Mod-5 Galois images from abelian surfaces},
author = {Aidan Hennessey and Mathilde Kermorgant and Andy Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06423},
year = {2025}
}
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