A family of Jacobians with definite quaternionic multiplication

Abstract: We investigate explicitly a family of hyperelliptic curves of genus four whose Jacobians have definite quaternionic multiplication. This family has many interesting features, including: they give infinitely many examples where the ell-adic monodromy groups are disconnected over the field of definition of the endomorphism ring. This is joint work with Victoria Cantoral-Farfan and Davide Lombardo.

number theory

Audience: researchers in the discipline

Boston University Number Theory Seminar

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