Generalized Jacobians and explicit descents

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3491zbMATH Open1477.11117arXiv1601.06445OpenAlexW2977268319WikidataQ127179373 ScholiaQ127179373MaRDI QIDQ5216732FDOQ5216732

Brendan Creutz

Publication date: 18 February 2020

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a cohomological description of various explicit descents in terms of generalized Jacobians, generalizing the known description for hyperelliptic curves. Specifically, given an integer $n$ dividing the degree of some reduced effective divisor $mathfrakm$ on a curve $C$, we show that multiplication by $n$ on the generalized Jacobian $J_{f}rakm$ factors through an isogeny $varphi:A_{mathfrakm}ightarrow{J}_{mathfrakm}$ whose kernel is naturally the dual of the Galois module $(operatornamePic(C_{overlinek})/mathfrakm)[n]$. By geometric class field theory, this corresponds to an abelian covering of $C_{overlinek}:=Cime{s}_{operatornameSpeck}operatornameSpec(overlinek)$ of exponent $n$ unramified outside $mathfrakm$. The $n$-coverings of $C$ parameterized by explicit descents are the maximal unramified subcoverings of the $k$-forms of this ramified covering. We present applications of this to the computation of Mordell-Weil groups of Jacobians.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06445

zbMATH Keywords

abelian coveringsgeneralized Jacobiansexplicit descents

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)]

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