Abelian varieties over large algebraic fields with infinite torsion

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Abstract: Let A be an abelian variety of positive dimension defined over a number field K and let Kbar be a fixed algebraic closure of K. For each element sigma of the absolute Galois group Gal(Kbar/K), let Kbar(sigma) be the fixed field of sigma in Kbar. We shall prove that the torsion subgroup of A(Kbar(sigma)) is infinite for all sigma in Gal(Kbar/K) outside of some set of Haar measure zero. This proves the number field case of a conjecture of Geyer and Jarden from 1978.


\textit{W.-D. Geyer} and \textit{M. Jarden} [Isr. J. Math. 31, 257--297 (1978; Zbl 0406.14025)] proved that if \(K\) is a finitely generated field, then for almost all \(\sigma\) in the absolute Galois group of \(K\), and for all elliptic curves defined over \(\bar{K}(\sigma)\), the torsion subgroup of \(E(\bar{K}(\sigma))\) contains a point of order \(\ell\) for infinitely many primes \(\ell\). Over here, \(\bar{K}(\sigma)\) denotes the fixed field of \(\sigma\), and `almost all' means outside a set of Haar measure \(0\). Furthermore, they conjectured that these statements remain true if the elliptic curve \(E\) is replaced by any abelian variety. In [\textit{W.-D. Geyer} and \textit{M. Jarden}, Finite Fields Appl. 11, No. 1, 123--150 (2005; Zbl 1088.12001)], a weak form of this conjecture was proved, namely that if \(A\) is an abelian variety over a number field \(K\), then there exists a finite Galois extension \(L\) of \(K\), such that \(A(\bar{L}(\sigma))\) contains points of order \(\ell\) for infinitely many primes \(\ell\) for almost all \(\sigma\) in the absolute Galois group of \(L\). In the paper under review, this result is strengthened to show that for an abelian variety \(A\) over a number field \(K\), and for almost all \(\sigma\) in the absolute Galois group of \(K\), the torsion subgroup of \(A(\bar{K}(\sigma))\) contains points of order \(\ell\) for infinitely many primes \(\ell\).











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