The rational points on certain abelian varieties over function fields (Q1800484)

``In this paper, we consider abelian varieties over function fields that arise as twists of abelian varieties by cyclic covers of irreducible quasi-projective varieties. Then, in terms of Prym varieties of the cyclic covers, we prove a structure theorem on their Mordell-Weil group. Our results give an explicit method to construct elliptic curves, hyper- and super-elliptic Jacobians that have large ranks over function fields of certain varieties.'' In [J. Number Theory 50, No. 2, 278--285 (1995; Zbl 0838.14024)], \textit{F. Hazama} gave an explicit method for construction of abelian varieties with large rank over function fields. The main result of this article (Theorem 1.1) generalizes the main result of Hazama to arbitrary cyclic \(s\)-covers of irreducible quasi-projective varieties for any integer \(s \geq 2\). In the corrigendum the author corrects some mathematical errors as well as some typos in the paper.