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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02044 |
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- A lot of work has gone into computing images of Galois representations coming from elliptic curves. This article presents an algorithm to determine the image of the mod-$3$ Galois representation associated to a principally polarized abelian surface over $\mathbb{Q}$. Conjugacy class distribution of subgroups of $\mathrm{GSp}(4,\mathbb{F}_3)$ is a key ingredient. While this ingredient is feasible to compute for $\mathrm{GSp}(4,\mathbb{F}_{\ell})$ for any small prime $\ell$, distinguishing Gassmann-equivalent subgroups is a delicate problem. We accomplish it for $\ell = 3$ using several techniques. The algorithm does not require the knowledge of endomorphisms.