English

Effective obstruction to lifting Tate classes from positive characteristic

Algebraic Geometry 2022-09-23 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

We give an algorithm that takes a smooth hypersurface over a number field and computes a pp-adic approximation of the obstruction map on the Tate classes of a finite reduction. This gives an upper bound on the "middle Picard number" of the hypersurface. The improvement over existing methods is that our method relies only on a single prime reduction and gives the possibility of cutting down on the dimension of Tate classes by two or more. The obstruction map comes from pp-adic variational Hodge conjecture and we rely on the recent advancement by Bloch-Esnault-Kerz to interpret our bounds.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.11037,
  title  = {Effective obstruction to lifting Tate classes from positive characteristic},
  author = {Edgar Costa and Emre Can Sertöz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11037},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

35 pages, 2 figures; v3 typos corrected and a new example

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