We prove the $p$-curvature conjecture for rank two vector bundles with connection on generic curves, by combining deformation techniques for families of varieties and topological arguments.
If $pi: Y to X$ is an unramified double cover of a smooth curve of genus $g$, then the Prym variety $P_pi$ is a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension $g-1$. When $X$ is defined over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p$, it is not known in general which $p$-ranks can occur for $P_pi$ under restrictions on the $p$-rank of $X$. In this paper, when $X$ is a non-hyperelliptic curve of genus $g=3$, we analyze the relationship between the Hasse-Witt matrices of $X$ and $P_pi$. As an application, when $p equiv 5 bmod 6$, we prove that there exists a curve $X$ of genus $3$ and $p$-rank $f=3$ having an unramified double cover $pi:Y to X$ for which $P_pi$ has $p$-rank $0$ (and is thus supersingular); for $3 leq p leq 19$, we verify the same for each $0 leq f leq 3$. Using theoretical results about $p$-rank stratifications of moduli spaces, we prove, for small $p$ and arbitrary $g geq 3$, that there exists an unramified double cover $pi: Y to X$ such that both $X$ and $P_pi$ have small $p$-rank.
In 1922, Mordell conjectured the striking statement that for a polynomial equation $f(x,y)=0$, if the topology of the set of complex number solutions is complicated enough, then the set of rational number solutions is finite. This was proved by Faltings in 1983, and again by a different method by Vojta in 1991, but neither proof provided a way to provably find all the rational solutions, so the search for other proofs has continued. Recently, Lawrence and Venkatesh found a third proof, relying on variation in families of $p$-adic Galois representations; this is the subject of the present exposition.
Let $X$ be a curve of genus $ggeq 2$ over a number field $F$ of degree $d = [F:Q]$. The conjectural existence of a uniform bound $N(g,d)$ on the number $#X(F)$ of $F$-rational points of $X$ is an outstanding open problem in arithmetic geometry, known by [CHM97] to follow from the Bombieri--Lang conjecture. A related conjecture posits the existence of a uniform bound $N_{{rm tors},dagger}(g,d)$ on the number of geometric torsion points of the Jacobian $J$ of $X$ which lie on the image of $X$ under an Abel--Jacobi map. For fixed $X$ this quantity was conjectured to be finite by Manin--Mumford, and was proved to be so by Raynaud [Ray83]. We give an explicit uniform bound on $#X(F)$ when $X$ has Mordell--Weil rank $rleq g-3$. This generalizes recent work of Stoll on uniform bounds on hyperelliptic curves of small rank to arbitrary curves. Using the same techniques, we give an explicit, unconditional uniform bound on the number of $F$-rational torsion points of $J$ lying on the image of $X$ under an Abel--Jacobi map. We also give an explicit uniform bound on the number of geometric torsion points of $J$ lying on $X$ when the reduction type of $X$ is highly degenerate. Our methods combine Chabauty--Colemans $p$-adic integration, non-Archimedean potential theory on Berkovich curves, and the theory of linear systems and divisors on metric graphs.
Let $F$ be a non-archimedean local field with residue field $mathbb{F}_q$ and let $G = GL_2/F$. Let $mathbf{q}$ be an indeterminate and let $H^{(1)}(mathbf{q})$ be Vigneras generic pro-p Iwahori-Hecke algebra of the p-adic group $G(F)$. Let $V_{widehat{G}}$ be the Vinberg monoid of the dual group of $G$. We establish a generic version for $H^{(1)}(mathbf{q})$ of the Kazhdan-Lusztig-Ginzburg antispherical representation, the Bernstein map and the Satake isomorphism. We define the flag variety for the monoid $V_{widehat{G}}$ and establish the characteristic map in its equivariant K-theory. These generic constructions recover the classical ones after the specialization $mathbf{q} = q in mathbb{C}$. At $mathbf{q} = q = 0 inoverline{mathbb{F}}_q$, the antispherical map provides a dual parametrization of all the irreducible $H^{(1)}_{overline{mathbb{F}}_q}(0)$-modules. This work supersedes our earlier work arXiv:1907.08808. We explain the relationship between the two articles in the introduction.
In this paper, $p$ and $q$ are two different odd primes. First, We construct the congruent elliptic curves corresponding to $p$, $2p$, $pq$, and $2pq,$ then, in the cases of congruent numbers, we determine the rank of the corresponding congruent elliptic curves.