Explicit Selmer groups for cyclic covers of P1

DOI10.4064/AA159-2-4zbMATH Open1316.11056arXiv1108.3364OpenAlexW3124543329MaRDI QIDQ4920581FDOQ4920581

Ronald van Luijk, Michael Stoll

Publication date: 21 May 2013

Published in: Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

descentSelmer groupfake Selmer group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian varieties of dimension (> 1) (11G10) [https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?search=%2211G30%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30)

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