Shimura curve quotients with odd Jacobians
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Shimura curve quotients with odd Jacobians
zbMATH Open document ID: 1015.11025
author: Srinath Baba
published in: Journal of Number Theory
publication date: 2001-09-25T00:00:00Z
reviewed by: Michael Stoll
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11G18
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11G30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14G35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14H40
zbMATH DE Number: 1594763
zbMATH Keywords: Shimura curves
zbMATH Keywords: Shafarevich-Tate group
zbMATH Keywords: odd Jacobians
Wikidata QID: Q114234191
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: jnth.2000.2600
OpenAlex ID: W2045668579
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DOI: 10.1006/JNTH.2000.2600
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review text: In their joint paper [Ann. Math. (2) 150, 1109-1149 (1999; Zbl 1024.11040)], \textit{B. Poonen} and the reviewer introduced the concept of odd and even Jacobians. The paper under review studies quotients of Shimura curves by subgroups of the Atkin-Lehner involutions and tries to determine when they have odd Jacobians, following earlier work by \textit{B. W. Jordan} and \textit{R. Livné} [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 31, 681-685 (1999; Zbl 1024.11043)]. Based on the criterion developed by Poonen and Stoll and using the Cherednik-Drinfeld \(p\)-adic uniformization of Shimura curves, the author arrives at a general necessary condition for an odd Jacobian: the subgroup must have index~2 and may not contain the Fricke involution. Using more detailed results on the existence of local points, several examples (including two families) of Shimura curve quotients with odd Jacobians are given. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINETwo points in the paper warrant a special comment. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(1) The statement on p.~96 that Poonen and Stoll show that \(\langle [X_\lambda], [X_\lambda] \rangle_\lambda = 1/2\) if and only if \([X_\lambda]\) is nontrivial in the Shafarevich-Tate group is not correct. It is possible that the pairing vanishes even though \([X_\lambda] \neq 0\). However, in this case the Jacobian is even. For an example, see Poonen-Stoll, p.~1140, Prop.~28. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(2) The statement in the middle of p.~97 that Jordan and Livné exhibited the first known family of non-hyperelliptic curves with odd Jacobian is also not correct. Such a family (certain plane quartics) is already given in Poonen-Stoll, p.~1140, Prop.~29.
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