Degeneracy and Sato-Tate groups of $y^2=x^{p^2}-1$

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Justin, Goodson, Heidi, Hoque, Rezwan, Malikah, Sabeeha
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author Chen, Justin
Goodson, Heidi
Hoque, Rezwan
Malikah, Sabeeha
author_facet Chen, Justin
Goodson, Heidi
Hoque, Rezwan
Malikah, Sabeeha
contents We say that an abelian variety is degenerate if its Hodge ring is not generated by divisor classes. Degeneracy leads to some interesting challenges when computing Sato-Tate groups, and there are currently few examples and techniques presented in the literature. In this paper we focus on the Jacobians of the family of curves $C_{p^2}: y^2=x^{p^2}-1$, where $p$ is an odd prime. Using a construction developed by Shioda in the 1980s, we are able to characterize so-called indecomposable Hodge classes as well as the Sato-Tate groups of these Jacobian varieties. Our work is inspired by computation, and examples and methods are described throughout the paper.
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spellingShingle Degeneracy and Sato-Tate groups of $y^2=x^{p^2}-1$
Chen, Justin
Goodson, Heidi
Hoque, Rezwan
Malikah, Sabeeha
Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
11G10, 14C25, 14K22
We say that an abelian variety is degenerate if its Hodge ring is not generated by divisor classes. Degeneracy leads to some interesting challenges when computing Sato-Tate groups, and there are currently few examples and techniques presented in the literature. In this paper we focus on the Jacobians of the family of curves $C_{p^2}: y^2=x^{p^2}-1$, where $p$ is an odd prime. Using a construction developed by Shioda in the 1980s, we are able to characterize so-called indecomposable Hodge classes as well as the Sato-Tate groups of these Jacobian varieties. Our work is inspired by computation, and examples and methods are described throughout the paper.
title Degeneracy and Sato-Tate groups of $y^2=x^{p^2}-1$
topic Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
11G10, 14C25, 14K22
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03299