Shimura curves as intersections of Humbert surfaces and defining equations of QM-curves of genus two (Q1897783)

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    Shimura curves as intersections of Humbert surfaces and defining equations of QM-curves of genus two
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 794318

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      Shimura curves as intersections of Humbert surfaces and defining equations of QM-curves of genus two (English)
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      10 September 1995
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      A QM-curve is a curve of genus two whose Jacobian variety is an abelian surface with quaternion multiplication. In this paper, the authors consider fiber varieties over a Shimura curve whose fibers are QM-curves. They give an explicit defining equation for such a fiber variety when the discriminant of the associated quaternion algebra is six or ten.
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      Humbert surfaces
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      QM-curve
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      fiber varieties
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      Shimura curve
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      quaternion algebra
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