Complete families of indecomposable non-simple abelian varieties (Q2134189)

The main result of the paper shows how to construct complete families of indecomposable abelian varieties whose very general fiber is isogenous to a prescribed one and whose monodromy group is either a product of symplectic groups or a unitary group. The result applies to the study of the monodromy group of families of abelian varieties: it shows how to realize any product of symplectic groups of total rank g as the connected monodromy group of a complete family of $g'$-dimensional abelian varieties for any $g'\geq g$. This has a direct relation with the study of variations of Hodge structures on families of non-simple Jacobians, for instance Jacobians of coverings of curves. As a further application, it allows to recover certain Kodaira fibrations precedently found by the author with different methods and to construct a new one with fibers of genus 4.