The rank of hyperelliptic Jacobians in families of quadratic twists (Q2642780)

The author studies the rank of hyperelliptic Jacobian varieties in families of quadratic twists in a way analogous to [\textit{F. Gouvêa} and \textit{B. Mazur}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 4, 1--23 (1991; Zbl 0725.11027); \textit{C. L. Stewart} and \textit{J. Top}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 8, 943--973 (1995; Zbl 0857.11026) and \textit{K. Rubin} and \textit{A. Silverberg}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 39, 455--474 (2002; Zbl 1052.11039)] for elliptic curves. Among other results, the author proves that 1. Any hyperelliptic curve \(H\) over a number field \(k\) admits infinitely many quadratic twists of rank \(\geq \text{rk}(\text{End}_k(\text{Jac}(H)))\). 2. There are certain quite special hyperelliptic curves \(H/k\) (but still infinitely many for each genus) for which there exists a hyperelliptic curve \(S/k\) such that \(\text{Jac}(S) \sim \text{Jac}(H)^2 \times B\) for some abelian variety \(B/k\). Each such \(H\) admits infinitely many quadratic twists of rank \(\geq 2 \cdot \text{rk}(\text{End}_k(\text{Jac}(H)))\). 3. There are certain very special hyperelliptic curves \(H/k\) for which there is a hyperelliptic curve \(S/k\) such that \(\text{Jac}(S) \sim \text{Jac}(H)^3 \times B\) for some abelian variety \(B/k\). Each such \(H\) admits infinitely many quadratic twists of rank \(\geq 3 \cdot \text{rk}(\text{End}_k(\text{Jac}(H)))\). Furthermore, in the case \(k=\mathbb{Q}\), the author obtains density results. As the author points out, if one could prove that for any hyperelliptic curve \(H\) there exists another hyperelliptic curve \(S\) such that \(\text{Jac}(S) \sim \text{Jac}(H)^2 \times B\) this ambitious statement would imply that any hyperelliptic Jacobian would have twists of arbitrarily high rank.