On abelian surfaces with potential quaternionic multiplication

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Abstract: An abelian surface A over a field K has potential quaternionic multiplication if the ring End_�ar K (A) of geometric endomorphisms of A is an order in an indefinite rational division quaternion algebra. In this brief note, we study the possible structures of the ring of endomorphisms of these surfaces and we provide explicit examples of Jacobians of curves of genus two which show that our result is sharp.


An Abelian surface \(A\) over a field \(K\) has a potential quaternionic multiplication if the ring \(\text{End}_{\overline K}(A)\), where \(\overline K\) is a separable closure of \(K\), of geometric endomorphisms of \(A\) is an order in an indefinite rational division quaternion algebra. In the paper under review the authors prove that if \(A/\mathbb{Q}\) is an Abelian surface with potential quaternionic multiplication by a hereditary order \(O\) of discriminant \(D\) in a quaternion algebra \(B\), then for the minimal field of definition \(L/\mathbb{Q}\) of the quaternionic multiplication on \(A\) and for \(F:= \text{End}_{\mathbb{Q}}(A)\otimes\mathbb{Q}\) either \(L\) is an imaginary quadratic field and \(F= \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{m})\) is a real quadratic field such that \(B\simeq({-D\delta,m\over \mathbb{Q}})\) for any possible degree \(\delta\) of a polarization on \(A/\mathbb{Q}\), or \(L\) is purely imaginary dihedral extension of \(\mathbb{Q}\) of degree \([L:\mathbb{Q}]\geq 4\) and \(F=\mathbb{Q}\). The results should be seen as a strengthen of their previous results [J. Algebra 281, No. 1, 124--143 (2004; Zbl 1064.11043 )] in the special case that the base field is \(\mathbb{Q}\). They also give examples of Abelian surfaces which show that all the cases of their result can occur and, at the end, they give non-trivial examples of Abelian surfaces \(A/K\) over a quadratic imaginary field \(K\) such that all quaternionic endomorphisms of \(A\) are defined over \(K\) itself.











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