On a Galois property of fields generated by the torsion of an abelian variety

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Gabriel A. Dill, Sara Checcoli

Publication date: 21 June 2023

Abstract: In this article, we study a certain Galois property of subextensions of $k(A_{mathrmtors})$, the minimal field of definition of all torsion points of an abelian variety $A$ defined over a number field $k$. Concretely, we show that each subfield of $k(A_{mathrmtors})$ which is Galois over $k$ (of possibly infinite degree) and whose Galois group has finite exponent is contained in an abelian extension of some finite extension of $k$. As an immediate corollary of this result and a theorem of Bombieri and Zannier, we deduce that each such field has the Northcott property, i.e. does not contain any infinite set of algebraic numbers of bounded height.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Results involving abelian varieties (11J95)

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