A note on Galois embeddings of abelian varieties (Q1679189)

Let \(A\) be an abelian variety of dimension \(g\) with a projective embedding \(\varphi: A \rightarrow \mathbb P^N\). Let \(W \subset \mathbb P^N\) be a linear subspce of dimension \(N -g -1\) disjoint from the image of \(\varphi\) and \(W_0 \subset \mathbb P^N\) a linear subspace of dimension \(g\) disjoint from \(W\). Consider the linear projection \(\pi_W: \mathbb P^N \dashrightarrow W_0\). The embedding \(\varphi\) is called Galois, if the composition \(\pi_W \varphi: A \rightarrow W_0\) is a Galois covering. \textit{H. Yoshihara} showed in [Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova 117, 69--85 (2007; Zbl 1136.14041)] that if \(A\) admits a Galois embedding, then it must contain an elliptic curve and moreover, if an abelian surface admits a Galois embedding, it is isogenous to a self-product of an elliptic curve. The main result of this paper is the following generalization: Let \(A\) be an abelian variety of dimension \(g\). If \(A\) admits a Galois embedding, then it is isogenous to a self-product of an elliptic curve. If \(A\) equals a self-product of an elliptic curve, then \(A\) possesses infinitely many Galois embeddings and there are Galois embeddings with arbitrarily large Galois group. Two proofs of the second mentioned result are given.