Rational points of abelian varieties with values in towers of number fields
Rational points of abelian varieties with values in towers of number fields
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01389815
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发表时间:
1972-12
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
B. Mazur
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作者:
B. Mazur
K= KocKI C''" cKn~'" cK~= L= U Kn n= O (cf. w 1 (c)) such that Gal (KJK) is cyclic of order pn. Set F= GaI (L/K). Let, 4 be an abelian variety over K which has good, ordinary reduction at all primes dividing p. The question motivating the theory presented in this paper is the following: Is the group of rational points A (L) finitely generated?The classical Mordell-Weil theorem guarantees that A (Kn) is finitely generated for each n, but gives no indication of what to expect when one considers questions concerning asymptotic growth of the group of rational points as one varies the number field. Here is some reason for hoping that our question has an affirmative answer: Suppose that, 4 is the Jacobian of a curve C. Then, 4 (L) is closely related to the N6ron-Severi group of the minimal regular arithmetic surface which is a model for C over the ring of integers in L. Consequently, Iwasawa's magnificent analogy between L and the rational function field of a curve over the: algebraic closure of a finite field might lead one to expect that A (L) has a structure similar to that of the N6ron-Severi group of a surface over the algebraic closure of a finite field; but the N6ron-Severi group of such a surface is finitely generated. I have found that the axiomatics of the above problem can be kept more clearly in focus if one works more generally with an abelian variety, 4/K and any F-extension L/K satisfying the hypotheses of (6.1) below. We call such a pair (L/K, A) admissible. Much of the information expressing the asymptotic growth of A (Kn) and the p-primary component of the Shafarevitch-Tate group of, 4, p~///A (K~) is contained in a certain polynomial with p-adic coefficients that we define by means of an essential construction made in w This polynomial, which depends upon a choice of topological generator~ F,