Monodromy groups of Jacobians with definite quaternionic multiplication

Abstract: Let

A

be an abelian variety over a number field. The connected monodromy field of

A

is the minimal field over which the images of all the

e l l

-adic torsion representations have connected Zariski closure. We show that for all even

g g e q 4

, there exist infinitely many geometrically nonisogenous abelian varieties

A

over

m a t h b b Q

of dimension

g

where the connected monodromy field is strictly larger than the field of definition of the endomorphisms of

A

. Our construction arises from explicit families of hyperelliptic Jacobians with definite quaternionic multiplication.

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