Curves with prescribed period and index over local fields

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2007.02.020MaRDI QIDQ2382979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shahed Sharif

Publication date 5 October 2007

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2007.02.020

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic geometryindexlocal fieldperiodTate curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic curves over local fields (11G07) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Local ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G20) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

Review text

Let \(Y\) be a curve over a field \(K\). The index \(I = I(Y)\) of \(Y\) is the smallest positive degree of \(K\)-rational divisors, and the period \(P = P(Y)\) is the smallest positive degree of \(K\)-rational divisor classes. \textit{S. Lichtenbaum} [Invent. Math. 7, 120--136 (1969; Zbl 0186.26402)] proved that if a curve \(Y\) of genus \(g\) is defined over a local field \(K\) then: (a) \(P| g-1\); (b) \(I=P\) or \(2P\); and (c) if \(I=2P\), then \((g-1)/P\) is odd. The author proves that if a triple of positive integers \((g,P,I)\) satisfies the above conditions (a), (b), (c), and \(K\) is a local field of characteristic \(\neq 2\), then there exists a curve \(Y\) over \(K\) of genus \(g\), period \(P\), and index \(I\). Such a curve is constructed as a degree 2 cover of a principal homogeneous space for an elliptic curve with split multiplicative reduction.

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• The Brauer-Manin obstruction for sections of the fundamental group
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