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We consider the local-global principle for divisibility in the Mordell-Weil group of a CM elliptic curve defined over a number field. For each prime $p$ we give sharp lower bounds on the degree $d$ of a number field over which there exists…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Brendan Creutz , Sheng Lu

We discuss the Mordell-Weil sieve as a general technique for proving results concerning rational points on a given curve. In the special case of curves of genus 2, we describe quite explicitly how the relevant local information can be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Nils Bruin , Michael Stoll

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over a quartic field $K$. By the Mordell-Weil theorem, $E(K)$ is a finitely generated group. We determine all the possibilities for the torsion group $E(K)_{tor}$ where $K$ ranges over all quartic fields $K$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maarten Derickx , Filip Najman

The classical Mordell-Weil theorem implies that an abelian variety $A$ over a number field $K$ has only finitely many $K$-rational torsion points. This finitude of torsion still holds even over the cyclotomic extension $K^{\rm…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Jeff Achter , Lian Duan , Xiyuan Wang

We study the arithmetic of abelian varieties over $K=k(t)$ where $k$ is an arbitrary field. The main result relates Mordell-Weil groups of certain Jacobians over $K$ to homomorphisms of other Jacobians over $k$. Our methods also yield…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Douglas Ulmer

We generalize the non-abelianization of Gaiotto-Moore-Neitzke from the case of $SL(n)$ and $GL(n)$ to arbitrary reductive algebraic groups. This gives a map between a moduli space of certain $N$-shifted weakly $W$-equivariant $T$-local…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Matei Ionita , Benedict Morrissey

The Mordell--Lang conjecture for abelian varieties states that the intersection of an algebraic subvariety $X$ with a subgroup of finite rank is contained in a finite union of cosets contained in $X$. In this article, we prove a uniform…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Ziyang Gao , Tangli Ge , Lars Kühne

Let $A$ and $B$ be abelian varieties defined over the function field $k(S)$ of a smooth algebraic variety $S/k.$ We establish criteria, in terms of restriction maps to subvarieties of $S,$ for existence of various important classes of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Wojciech Gajda , Sebastian Petersen

We completely describe the Brill-Noether theory for curves in the primitive linear system on generic abelian surfaces, in the following sense: given integers $d$ and $r$, consider the variety $V^r_d(|H|)$ parametrizing curves $C$ in the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Arend Bayer , Chunyi Li

It is well known that the rational torsion of an abelian variety defined over a number field injects into the reduction modulo any sufficiently large prime, so the order of the torsion group divides the greatest common divisor of the sizes…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jessica Alessandrì , Nirvana Coppola

For every associative algebra $A$ and every class $\mathcal{C}$ of representations of $A$ the following question (related to nullstellensatz) makes sense: Characterize all tuples of elements $a_1,\ldots,a_n \in A$ such that vectors…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jaka Cimprič , Aljaž Zalar

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for abelian varieties to acquire semistable reduction over fields of low degree. Our criteria are expressed in terms of torsion points of small order defined over unramified extensions.

alg-geom · Mathematics 2016-08-30 A. Silverberg , Yu. G. Zarhin

To compute generators for the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic curve over a number field, one needs to bound the difference between the naive and the canonical height from above. We give an elementary and fast method to compute an upper…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-12 J. Steffen Müller , Corinna Stumpe

We lower bound the Faltings height of an abelian variety over a number field by the sum of its injectivity diameter and the norm of its bad reduction primes. It leads to an unconditional bound on the rank of Mordell-Weil groups. Assuming…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Fabien Pazuki

We consider local-global principles for rational points on varieties, in particular torsors, over one-variable function fields over complete discretely valued fields. There are several notions of such principles, arising either from the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-15 David Harbater , Julia Hartmann , Valentijn Karemaker , Florian Pop

Symmetry-protected topological semimetals are at the focus of solid-state research due to their unconventional properties, for example, regarding transport. By investigating local two-band Bloch Hamiltonians in the spin-1/2 basis for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Andy Knoll , Carsten Timm

In this paper we prove the Geyer-Jarden conjecture on the torsion part of the Mordell-Weil group for a large class of abelian varieties defined over finitely generated fields of arbitrary characteristic. The class consists of all abelian…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-12 Sara Arias-de-Reyna , Wojciech Gajda , Sebastian Petersen

Let $k$ be a number field, let ${\mathcal{A}}$ be a commutative algebraic group defined over $k$ and let $p$ be a prime number. Let ${\mathcal{A}}[p]$ denote the $p$-torsion subgroup of ${\mathcal{A}}$. We give some sufficient conditions…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Laura Paladino

In this paper, we study rational sections of the relative Picard scheme of a linear system on a smooth projective variety. We prove that if the linear system is basepoint-free and the locus of non-integral divisors has codimension at least…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Matthew Woolf

Suppose $X$ is a torsor under an abelian variety $A$ over a number field. We show that any adelic point of $X$ that is orthogonal to the algebraic Brauer group of $X$ is orthogonal to the whole Brauer group of $X$. We also show that if…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Brendan Creutz