Geometry Seminar

 

University of Tor Vergata, Department of Mathematics

26th of November 2024, 14:30-16:00, room D’Antoni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isogeny theorems for abelian varieties over function fields of positive characteristic

 

Samuel Le Fourn

Université Grenoble Alpes

 

 

 

 

Isogeny theorems are a powerful number-theoretic tool to understand subgroup of elliptic curves over number fields and through those, properties of their rational points. As a prerequisite for such theorems, one needs to understand how the "height" h(E) of an elliptic curve E can change by an isogeny: if E and E' are elliptic curves over a number field K with an isogeny phi : E -> E' over K, the difference |h(E)-h(E')| is linearly bounded in terms of log(deg(phi)). In a recent paper, Griffon and Pazuki proved a similar result for elliptic curves over function fields of curves, which is surprisingly much more uniform on the degree of phi (for example, in characteristic 0 the height is invariant by isogeny !). In this talk, I will recall what are abelian varieties and isogenies between them and what are their heights, why Griffon-Pazuki's result is not as easily generalised as it seems (abelian varieties being the higher-dimensional avatars of elliptic curves) because of group schemes in characteristic p, and describe the optimal bounds we obtained with Griffon and Pazuki in the context of function fields

 

 

 

 

This talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Excellence Department Projects MathMod@TOV, and the PRIN 2022 Moduli Spaces and Birational Geometry and Prin PNRR 2022 Mathematical Primitives for Post Quantum Digital Signatures