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Abelian Surfaces over totally real fields are Potentially Modular

Number Theory 2021-11-30 v3

Abstract

We show that abelian surfaces (and consequently curves of genus 2) over totally real fields are potentially modular. As a consequence, we obtain the expected meromorphic continuation and functional equations of their Hasse--Weil zeta functions. We furthermore show the modularity of infinitely many abelian surfaces A over Q with End_C(A)=Z. We also deduce modularity and potential modularity results for genus one curves over (not necessarily CM) quadratic extensions of totally real fields.

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@article{arxiv.1812.09269,
  title  = {Abelian Surfaces over totally real fields are Potentially Modular},
  author = {George Boxer and Frank Calegari and Toby Gee and Vincent Pilloni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.09269},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Final version (fixing minor typos found in copyediting). 292 pages, to appear in Publ. Math. de l'IHES

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