Explicit Selmer groups for cyclic covers of P^1

DOI10.4064/AA159-2-4MaRDI QIDQ4920581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Stoll, Ronald van Luijk

Publication date 21 May 2013

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3364

zbMATH Keywords

descentfake Selmer groupSelmer group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian varieties of dimension (> 1) (11G10) [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MSC%2011G30%20%22Curves+of+arbitrary+genus+or+genus+%28%0D%0Ae+1%29+over+global+fields%22 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40)

Abstract: For any abelian variety J over a global field k and an isogeny phi: J -> J, the Selmer group Sel^phi(J,k) is a subgroup of the Galois cohomology group H^1(Gal(ksep/k), J[phi]), defined in terms of local data. When J is the Jacobian of a cyclic cover of P^1 of prime degree p, the Selmer group has a quotient by a subgroup of order at most p that is isomorphic to the `fake Selmer group', whose definition is more amenable to explicit computations. In this paper we define in the same setting the `explicit Selmer group', which is isomorphic to the Selmer group itself and just as amenable to explicit computations as the fake Selmer group. This is useful for describing the associated covering spaces explicitly and may thus help in developing methods for second descents on the Jacobians considered.

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