On an analogue of the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for abelian schemes over higher dimensional bases over finite fields (Q2003516)

In this paper, the author presents an analogue for the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian schemes with everywhere good reduction over higher dimensional bases over finite fields. Let \(p\) be the characteristic of the base field. The author proves the prime-to-\(p\) part of the conjecture assuming either the finiteness of the \(p\)-primary part of the Tate-Shafarevich group or the equality of the analytic and algebraic rank. If the base variety is a product of curves, an abelian variety or a \(K\)3 surface then the author proves the prime-to-\(p\) part for constant or isoconstant abelian schemes. Moreover, the author shows that the general conjecture can be reduced to the surface case.