Explicit Arithmetic of Jacobians of Generalized Legendre Curves Over Global Function Fields

Abstract: We study the Jacobian

J

of the smooth projective curve

C

of genus

r - 1

with affine model

y^{r} = x^{r - 1} (x + 1) (x + t)

over the function field

m a t h b b F_{p} (t)

, when

p

is prime and

r g e 2

is an integer prime to

p

. When

q

is a power of

p

and

d

is a positive integer, we compute the

L

-function of

J

over

m a t h b b F_{q} (t^{1 / d})

and show that the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture holds for

J

over

m a t h b b F_{q} (t^{1 / d})

. When

d

is divisible by

r

and of the form

p^{u} + 1

, and

K_{d} := m a t h b b F_{p} (m u_{d}, t^{1 / d})

, we write down explicit points in

J (K_{d})

, show that they generate a subgroup

V

of rank

(r - 1) (d - 2)

whose index in

J (K_{d})

is finite and a power of

p

, and show that the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group of

J

over

K_{d}

is

[J (K_{d}) : V]^{2}

. When

r > 2

, we prove that the "new" part of

J

is isogenous over

o v e r l i n e m a t h b b F_{p} (t)

to the square of a simple abelian variety of dimension

p h i (r) / 2

with endomorphism algebra

m a t h b b Z [m u_{r}]^{+}

. For a prime

e l l

with

e l l m i d p r

, we prove that

J [e l l] (L) = 0

for any abelian extension

L

of

o v e r l i n e {m a t h b b F}_{p} (t)

.

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