Determinants of subquotients of Galois representations associated with abelian varieties. (July 2014) - Larson, Eric
Abstract Given an abelian variety $A$ of dimension $g$ over a number field $K$ , and a prime $\ell $ , the ${\ell }^{n} $ -torsion points of $A$ give rise to a representation ${\rho }_{A, {\ell }^{n} } : \mathrm{Gal} ( \overline{K} / K)\rightarrow {\mathrm{GL} }_{2g} ( \mathbb{Z} / {\ell }^{n} \mathbb{Z} )$ . In particular, we get a mod- $\ell $ representation ${\rho }_{A, \ell } : \mathrm{Gal} ( \overline{K} / K)\rightarrow {\mathrm{GL} }_{2g} ({ \mathbb{F} }_{\ell } )$ and an $\ell $ -adic representation ${\rho }_{A, {\ell }^{\infty } } : \mathrm{Gal} ( \overline{K} / K)\rightarrow {\mathrm{GL} }_{2g} ({ \mathbb{Z} }_{\ell } )$ . In this paper, we describe the possible determinants of subquotients of these two representations. These two lists turn out to be remarkably similar. Applying our results in dimension $g= 1$ , we recover a generalized version of a theorem of Momose on isogeny characters of elliptic curves over number fields, and obtain, conditionally on the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, a generalization of Mazur's bound on rational isogenies of prime degree to number fields.