Distinguished models of intermediate Jacobians

Speaker: Jeff Achter

Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2017

Location: Colorado State University

Conference: PIMS CRG in Explicit Methods for Abelian Varieties

Subject: Mathematics

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Consider a smooth projective variety over a number field. The image of the associated (complex) Abel-Jacobi map inside the (transcendental) intermediate Jacobian is a complex abelian variety. We show that this abelian variety admits a distinguished model over the original number field, and use it to address a problem of Mazur on modeling the cohomology of an arbitrary smooth projective variety by that of an abelian variety.

(This is joint work with Sebastian Casalaina-Martin and Charles Vial.)

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