Mordell-Weil groups of generic Abelian varieties (Q1065085)

The paper under review deals with the following question: Suppose \(X=D/\Gamma\) is a Shimura-variety over \(\mathbb C\), and \(A\to X\) a family of abelian varieties derived from the interpretation of \(X\) as a moduli space. What is the Mordell-Weil group \(A(\mathbb C(X))\)? (It is finitely generated.) The author shows that in many cases the group is finite. The details of the proofs are somehow intricate, but the main idea seems to be the following: (a) any rational section extends to a holomorphic section \(X\to A\); (b) over \(X\) we have an exact sequence \[ 0\to\mathcal L\to\mathrm{Lie}(A)\to A\to 0, \] hence an exact sequence \[ H^ 0(X,\mathrm{Lie}(A))\to A(X)\to H^ 1(X,{\mathcal L})\to H^ 1(X,\mathrm{Lie}(A)). \] It suffices to show that the first term vanishes, and that the last arrow is injective up to torsion. If \(X\) is compact we may apply vanishing theorems and Eichler integrals to achieve this. For noncompact \(X\) one reduces to the case of the upper half-space.