An effective open image theorem for abelian varieties

Publication date: 30 October 2019

Abstract: Fix an abelian variety

A

of dimension

g g e q 1

defined over a number field

K

. For each prime

e l l

, the Galois action on the

e l l

-power torsion points of

A

induces a representation

h o_{A, e l l} c o l o n G a l_{K} o G L_{2 g} (m a t h b b Z_{e} l l)

. The

e l l

-adic monodromy group of

A

is the Zariski closure

G_{A, e l l}

of the image of

h o_{A, e l l}

in

G L_{2 g, m a t h b b Q_{e} l l}

. The image of

h o_{A, e l l}

is open in

G_{A, e l l} (m a t h b b Q_{e} l l)

with respect to the

e l l

-adic topology and hence the index

[G_{A, e l l} (m a t h b b Q_{e} l l) c a p G L_{2 g} (m a t h b b Z_{e} l l) : h o_{A, e l l} (G a l_{K})]

is finite. We prove that this index can be bounded in terms of

g

for all

e l l

larger then some constant depending on certain invariants of

A

.

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