Transcendental Brauer groups of products of CM elliptic curves

Abstract: Let

L

be a number field and let

E / L

be an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by the ring of integers

m a t h c a l O_{K}

of an imaginary quadratic field

K

. We use class field theory and results of Skorobogatov and Zarhin to compute the transcendental part of the Brauer group of the abelian surface

E i m e s E

. The results for the odd order torsion also apply to the Brauer group of the K3 surface

e x t r m K u m (E i m e s E)

. We describe explicitly the elliptic curves

E / m a t h b b Q

with complex multiplication by

m a t h c a l O_{K}

such that the Brauer group of

E i m e s E

contains a transcendental element of odd order. We show that such an element gives rise to a Brauer-Manin obstruction to weak approximation on

e x t r m K u m (E i m e s E)

, while there is no obstruction coming from the algebraic part of the Brauer group.

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