On the number of connected components of real abelian varieties that admit sufficiently many complex multiplications (Q1343711)
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On the number of connected components of real abelian varieties that admit sufficiently many complex multiplications (English)
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30 January 1995
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The question for the number of connected components is one of the main problems in the topology of real algebraic varieties. The author solves this problem for a real abelian variety \(X\), which (1) is absolutely simple, i.e. \(X_\mathbb{C} = X \otimes_\mathbb{R} \mathbb{C}\) has no non-trivial complex abelian subvarieties, (2) the ring of endomorphisms \(\text{End} (X_\mathbb{C})\) has rank: \(2 \cdot \dim X\), (3) \(\text{End} (X_\mathbb{C})\) is a maximal order in the field \(\text{End} (X_\mathbb{C}) \otimes \mathbb{Q}\). The known fact is that the number of connected components in this case is a power of 2 between 1 and \(2^{\dim X}\). The main theorem gives an expression of the number of connected components of \(X\) via arithmetic properties of \(\text{End} (X_\mathbb{C})\) and \(\text{End} (X)\). In particular, \(X\) is connected if the discriminant of the ring \(\text{End} (X_\mathbb{C})\) over \(\text{End} (X)\) is odd, and has \(2^{\dim X}\) components if the ramification of \(\text{End} (X_\mathbb{C})\) over \(\text{End} (X)\) is as wild as possible at any prime ideal of \(\text{End} (X)\) dividing 2. This generalizes the classical case of real elliptic curves.
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complex multiplication
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connectedness
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number of connected components
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topology of real algebraic varieties
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ring of endomorphisms
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