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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 209 - Number Theory

Ananth Shankar

MIT

Exceptional splitting of abelian surfaces over global function fields.

Abstract:

Let $A$ denote a non-constant ordinary abelian surface over a global function field (of characteristic $p > 2$) with good reduction everywhere. Suppose that $A$ does not have real multiplication by any real quadratic field with discriminant a multiple of $p$. Then we prove that there are infinitely many places modulo which $A$ is isogenous to the product of two elliptic curves. This is joint work with Davesh Maulik and Yunqing Tang.

Host: Ila Varma

February 14, 2019

1:00 PM

AP&M 7321

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