Quaternions, polarizations and class numbers

Details Quaternions, polarizations and class numbers Quaternions, polarizations and class numbers

2002-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/math/0211120v1

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Number Theory

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We study abelian varieties $A$ with multiplication by a totally indefinite quaternion algebra over a totally real number field and give a criterion for the existence of principal polarizations on them in pure arithmetic terms. Moreover, we give an expression for the number $\pi_0(A)$ of isomorphism classes of principal polarizations on $A$ in terms of relative class numbers of CM fields by means of Eichler's theory of optimal embeddings. As a consequence, we exhibit simple abelian varieties of any even dimension admitting arbitrarily many non-isomorphic principal polarizations. On the other hand, we prove that $\pi_0(A)$ is uniformly bounded for simple abelian varieties of odd square-free dimension.

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