Motivic zeta functions of Abelian varieties, and the monodromy conjecture (Q531813)

This paper proves a global form of Denef and Loeser's motivic monodromy conjecture for abelian varieties in arbitrary characteristic. The authors consider tamely ramified abelian varieties \(A\) over a complete discretely valued field. In detail they prove that the motivic zeta function of \(A\) has a unique pole at Chai's base change conductor \(c(A)\) and that the order of this pole equals one plus the potential toric rank of \(A\). Moreover it is shown that for every embedding of \(\mathbb{Q}_\ell\) in \(\mathbb{C}\), the value \(\exp(2\pi i c(A))\) is an \(\ell\)-adic tame monodromy eigenvalue of \(A\) (see also a recent preprint by the authors which proves that the order of the pole equals the size of the maximal Jordan block of the corresponding monodromy eigenvalue). The techniques rely on Edixhoven's filtration on the special fiber of the Néron model of \(A\), which measures the behaviour of the Néron model under tame base change. The theory is developed in greater generality in order to include the case of semi-abelian varieties. It remains an open problem to adapt the results to wildly ramified (semi-) abelian varieties.