Shimura varieties in the Torelli locus via Galois coverings of elliptic curves

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0118-0MaRDI QIDQ280131zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paola Frediani, Matteo Penegini, Paola Porru

Publication date 29 April 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00730

Shimura varieties Galois covers moduli spaces of curves Torelli map

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) Torelli problem (14C34) Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20) Complex multiplication and abelian varieties (14K22)

Abstract: We study Shimura subvarieties of

m a t h s f A_{g}

obtained from families of Galois coverings

f : C i g h t a r r o w C^{'}

where

C^{'}

is a smooth complex projective curve of genus

g^{'} g e q 1

and

g = g (C)

. We give the complete list of all such families that satisfy a simple sufficient condition that ensures that the closure of the image of the family via the Torelli map yields a Shimura subvariety of

m a t h s f A_{g}

for

g^{'} = 1, 2

and for all

g g e q 2, 4

and for

g^{'} > 2

and

g l e q 9

. In a previous work of the first and second author together with A. Ghigi [FGP] similar computations were done in the case

g^{'} = 0

. Here we find 6 families of Galois coverings, all with

g^{'} = 1

and

g = 2, 3, 4

and we show that these are the only families with

g^{'} = 1

satisfying this sufficient condition. We show that among these examples two families yield new Shimura subvarieties of

m a t h s f A_{g}

, while the other examples arise from certain Shimura subvarieties of

m a t h s f A_{g}

already obtained as families of Galois coverings of

m a t h b b P^{1}

in [FGP]. Finally we prove that if a family satisfies this sufficient condition with

g^{'} g e q 1

, then

g l e q 6 g^{'} + 1

.

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