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Lower bounds for ranks of Mumford-Tate groups
Let A be a complex abelian variety and G its Mumford--Tate group. Supposing
that the simple abelian subvarieties of A are pairwise non-isogenous, we find a
lower bound for the rank of G, which is a little less than log_2 dim A. If we
suppose that End A is commutative, then we show that rk G >= log_2 dim A + 2,
and this latter bound is sharp. We also obtain the same results for the rank of
the l-adic monodromy group of an abelian variety defined over a number field.
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Soit A une vari\'et\'e ab\'elienne complexe et G son groupe de Mumford--Tate.
En supposant que les sous vari\'et\'es ab\'eliennes simples de A sont deux \`a
deux non-isog\`enes, on trouve une minoration du rang rk G de G, l\'eg\`erement
inf\'erieure \`a log_2 dim A. Si on suppose que End A est commutatif, alors on
montre que rk G >= log_2 dim A + 2, et cette borne-ci est optimale. On obtient
les m\^emes resultats pour le rang du groupe de monodromie l-adique d'une
vari\'et\'e ab\'elienne d\'efinie sur un corps de nombres
Height bounds and the Siegel property
Let be a reductive group defined over and let
be a Siegel set in . The Siegel property tells us that there are
only finitely many of bounded determinant and
denominator for which the translate intersects
. We prove a bound for the height of these which is
polynomial with respect to the determinant and denominator. The bound
generalises a result of Habegger and Pila dealing with the case of , and
has applications to the Zilber-Pink conjecture on unlikely intersections in
Shimura varieties.
In addition we prove that if is a subset of , then every Siegel set
for is contained in a finite union of -translates of a
Siegel set for .Comment: 24 pages, minor revision
Families of abelian varieties with many isogenous fibres
Let Z be a subvariety of the moduli space of principally polarised abelian
varieties of dimension g over the complex numbers. Suppose that Z contains a
Zariski dense set of points which correspond to abelian varieties from a single
isogeny class. A generalisation of a conjecture of Andr\'e and Pink predicts
that Z is a weakly special subvariety. We prove this when dim Z = 1 using the
Pila--Zannier method and the Masser--W\"ustholz isogeny theorem. This
generalises results of Edixhoven and Yafaev when the Hecke orbit consists of CM
points and of Pink when it consists of Galois generic points.Comment: Gap in Lemma 3.3 found and corrected by Gabriel Dil
On compatibility between isogenies and polarisations of abelian varieties
We discuss the notion of polarised isogenies of abelian varieties, that is,
isogenies which are compatible with given principal polarisations. This is
motivated by problems of unlikely intersections in Shimura varieties. Our aim
is to show that certain questions about polarised isogenies can be reduced to
questions about unpolarised isogenies or vice versa.
Our main theorem concerns abelian varieties B which are isogenous to a fixed
abelian variety A. It establishes the existence of a polarised isogeny A to B
whose degree is polynomially bounded in n, if there exist both an unpolarised
isogeny A to B of degree n and a polarised isogeny A to B of unknown degree. As
a further result, we prove that given any two principally polarised abelian
varieties related by an unpolarised isogeny, there exists a polarised isogeny
between their fourth powers.
The proofs of both theorems involve calculations in the endomorphism algebras
of the abelian varieties, using the Albert classification of these endomorphism
algebras and the classification of Hermitian forms over division algebras
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