Non-isogenous elliptic curves and hyperelliptic jacobians II

Abstract: Let

K

be a field of characteristic different from

2

,

its algebraic closure. Let

n g e 3

be an odd integer. Let

f (x)

and

h (x)

be degree

n

polynomials with coefficients in

K

and without repeated roots. Let us consider genus

(n - 1) / 2

hyperelliptic curves

C_{f} : y^{2} = f (x)

and

C_{h} : y^{2} = h (x)

, and their jacobians

J (C_{f})

and

J (C_{h})

, which are

(n - 1) / 2

-dimensional abelian varieties defined over

K

. Suppose that one of the polynomials is irreducible and the other splits completely over

K

. We prove that if

J (C_{f})

and

J (C_{h})

are isogenous over

then there is an (odd) prime

e l l

dividing

n

such that the endomorphism algebras of both

J (C_{f})

and

J (C_{h})

contain a subfield that is isomorphic to the field of

e l l

th roots of

1

.

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