Fields of definition of building blocks with quaternionic multiplication

DOI10.4064/AA153-1-1MaRDI QIDQ3223876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Guitart

Publication date 8 March 2012

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4348

zbMATH Keywords

building blocksmodular abelian varietiesquaternionic multiplication

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18) Varieties over global fields (11G35)

Abstract: This paper investigates the fields of definition up to isogeny of the abelian varieties called building blocks. A result of Ribet characterizes the fields of definition of these varieties together with their endomorphisms, in terms of a Galois cohomology class canonically attached to them. However, when the building blocks have quaternionic multiplication, then the field of definition of the varieties can be strictly smaller than the field of definition of their endomorphisms. What we do is to give a characterization of the fields of definition of the varieties in this case (also in terms of their associated Galois cohomology class), by translating the problem into the language of group extensions with non-abelian kernel. We also make the computations that are needed in order to calculate in practice these fields from our characterization.

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