Arithmetic Geometry

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Springer, Aug 20, 1986 - Mathematics - 353 pages
This volume is the result of a (mainly) instructional conference on arithmetic geometry, held from July 30 through August 10, 1984 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. This volume contains expanded versions of almost all the instructional lectures given during the conference. In addition to these expository lectures, this volume contains a translation into English of Falt ings' seminal paper which provided the inspiration for the conference. We thank Professor Faltings for his permission to publish the translation and Edward Shipz who did the translation. We thank all the people who spoke at the Storrs conference, both for helping to make it a successful meeting and enabling us to publish this volume. We would especially like to thank David Rohrlich, who delivered the lectures on height functions (Chapter VI) when the second editor was unavoidably detained. In addition to the editors, Michael Artin and John Tate served on the organizing committee for the conference and much of the success of the conference was due to them-our thanks go to them for their assistance. Finally, the conference was only made possible through generous grants from the Vaughn Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Contents

5 The Work of Szpiro Extending This to Positive Characteristic
6
2 Semiabelian Varieties
23
Group Schemes Formal Groups and pDivisible Groups 29
29
2 Group Schemes Generalities
30
3 Finite Group Schemes
37
4 Commutative Finite Group Schemes
45
5 Formal Groups
56
6 pDivisible Groups
60
7 Weils Construction of the Jacobian Variety
189
8 Generalizations
192
9 Obtaining Coverings of a Curve from its Jacobian Application to Mordells Conjecture
195
10 Abelian Varieties Are Quotients of Jacobian Varieties
198
11 The Zeta Function of a Curve
200
Statement and Applications
202
The Proof
204
Bibliographic Notes for Abelian Varieties and Jacobian Varieties
208

7 Applications of Groups of Type p p p to pDivisible Groups
76
References
78
CHAPTER IV
79
2 Isogenies of Complex Tori
81
3 Abelian Varieties
83
4 The NéronSeveri Group and the Picard Group
92
5 Polarizations and Polarized Abelian Manifolds
95
6 The Space of Principally Polarized Abelian Manifolds
97
References
100
CHAPTER V
103
1 Definitions
104
3 Rational Maps into Abelian Varieties
105
4 Review of the Cohomology of Schemes
108
5 The Seesaw Principle
109
6 The Theorems of the Cube and the Square
110
7 Abelian Varieties Are Projective
112
8 Isogenies
114
Definition
117
Construction
119
11 The Dual Exact Sequence
120
12 Endomorphisms
121
13 Polarizations and the Cohomology of Invertible Sheaves
126
14 A Finiteness Theorem
127
15 The Étale Cohomology of an Abelian Variety
128
16 Pairings
131
17 The Rosati Involution
137
18 Two More Finiteness Theorems
140
19 The Zeta Function of an Abelian Variety
143
20 Abelian Schemes
145
References
150
CHAPTER VI
151
3 Heights
153
4 Heights on Abelian Varieties
156
5 The MordellWeil Theorem
158
Heights and Metrized Line Bundles
161
8 Distance Functions and Logarithmic Singularities
163
References
166
CHAPTER VII
167
2 The Canonical Maps from C to its Jacobian Variety
171
3 The Symmetric Powers of a Curve
174
4 The Construction of the Jacobian Variety
179
5 The Canonical Maps from the Symmetric Powers of C to its Jacobian Variety
182
6 The Jacobian Variety as Albanese Variety Autoduality
185
4 Isogenies
210
References
211
CHAPTER VIII
213
1 Properties of the Néron Model and Examples
214
Proof
221
R Strictly Local
223
4 Projective Embedding
227
2 Transcendental Uniformization of the Moduli Spaces
235
4 Toroidal Compactification
243
CHAPTER X
253
3 Weil Curves
260
6 Finiteness Theorems
264
CHAPTER XI
267
Reduction to Rational Singularities
274
Blowing Up the Dualizing Sheaf
281
CHAPTER XII
289
4 The RiemannRoch Theorem and the Adjunction Formula
299
CHAPTER XIII
309
3 Statement of the Castelnuovo Criterion
314
4 Intersection Theory and Proper and Total Transforms
315
5 Exceptional Curves
317
5B Prime Divisors Satisfying the Castelnuovo Criterion
319
6 Proof of the Castelnuovo Criterion
321
7 Proof of the Minimal Models Theorem
323
References
325
CHAPTER XIV
327
2 Nérons Local Height Pairing
328
3 Construction of the Local Height Pairing
329
4 The Canonical Height
331
5 Local Heights for Divisors with Common Support
332
6 Local Heights for Divisors of Arbitrary Degree
333
7 Local Heights on Curves of Genus Zero
334
8 Local Heights on Elliptic Curves
335
9 Greens Functions on the Upper HalfPlane
336
10 Local Heights on Mumford Curves
337
References
339
CHAPTER XV
341
2 Correspondence with Number Theory
344
3 Higher Dimensional Nevanlinna Theory
347
4 Consequences of the Conjecture
349
5 Comparison with Faltings Proof
352
References
353
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