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Some examples of abelian surfaces with everywhere good reduction

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Speaker: 
Lassina Dembélé
Affiliation: 
University of Warwick/MPI Bonn
Date: 
Wed, 20/06/2012 - 15:00 - 15:50
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

A celebrated result of Fontaine dated 1981 shows that there is no
abelian scheme over Z. In other words, there is no abelian variety over
Q with everywhere good reduction. This result is no longer true over
general number fields. In fact, long before Fontaine's result, Tate showed
that the discriminant of elliptic curve E: y^2 +xy + \epsilon^2 y= x^3,
where \epsilon =(5+\sqrt{29})/2, is a unit in Q(\sqrt{29}). There is
now a wealth of elliptic curves over quadratic fields with everywhere good
reduction in the literature. However, there is no known explicit examples
of (simple and non-CM) abelian surfaces with everywhere good reduction. In
this talk, we will present a strategy for looking for such surfaces and
give some examples. (This is joint work with Abhinav Kumar.)

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