On the arithmetic of abelian varieties

Mohamed Saidi, Akio Tamagawa

Published 2015-12-02Version 1

We prove some new results on the arithmetic of abelian varieties over function fields of one variable over finitely generated (infinite) fields. Among other things, we introduce certain new natural objects `discrete Selmer groups' and `discrete Shafarevich-Tate groups', and prove that they are finitely generated $\Bbb Z$-modules. Further, we prove that in the isotrivial case, the discrete Shafarevich-Tate group vanishes and the discrete Selmer group coincides with the Mordell-Weil group. One of the key ingredients to prove these results is a new specialisation theorem \`a la N\'eron for first Galois cohomology groups, of the ($l$-adic) Tate module of abelian varieties which generalises N\'eron's specialisation theorem for rational points of abelian varieties.