Remarks on strongly modular Jacobian surfaces (Q449696)

A strongly modular abelian variety is an abelian variety \(B/K\) over a number field \(K\) whose \(L\)-function \(L(B/K;s)\) is equivalent to a product of \(L\)-functions of classical modular forms for congruence subgroups \(\Gamma_1 (N)\). In this paper the authors prove that \(K\) is Galois over \(\mathbb Q\) if \(B/K\) is strongly modular, calculate the cohomology classes for the Jacobians of a certain family of genus two curves, and discuss an example of an abelian surface over a biquadratic field \(K = \mathbb Q (\sqrt{2}, \sqrt{-3})\).