Hyperelliptic Jacobians with real multiplication (Q2490146)

The purpose of this very clearly written paper is to provide a tool for construction of explicit examples of hyperelliptic curves of genus two such that its Jacobian variety admits real multiplication. Let \(K\) be a field of characteristic \(p\neq 2\). Let \(f(x)\in K[x]\) be an irreducible separable polynomial of degree six. Let \(C_f\) denote the hyperelliptic curve defined by \(y^2=f(x)\) and \(J(C_f)\) its Jacobian. Assuming that the Galois group of \(f\) is isomorphic to the alternating group of degree five and that \(\text{End}^0_K(J(C_f))\) contains a real quadratic field \(D\), the main theorem proves that \(\text{End}_K(J(C_f))\) is isomorphic to an order of \(D\) with discriminant \(\equiv 5 \pmod 8\). For the proof, the notion of very smallness of a group representation, which is introduced in [\textit{Yu. G. Zarhin}, Prog. Math. 195, 473--490 (2001; Zbl 1047.14015)] plays a crucial role. Armed with this notion, the author proves the theorem by employing the representation theory of finite groups and algebras. Furthermore, in the last two sections he gives quite a few concrete examples of hyperelliptic curves satisfying the hypotheses of the theorem.