Wednesday, 30 April 2008

arithmetic geometry - Torsion of an abelian variety under reduction.

This is Hartshorne, Exercise IV.4.19: Let mathcalA/mathbbZsetminusS=:T be an Abelian scheme. The multiplication by n morphism is flat [I don't know how to show this, but I think it can be found in Katz-Mazur.], so the n-Torsion mathcalA[n]tomathcalA is also flat as it is a base change and mathcalAtoT also since it is flat. It is also proper and quasi-finite, and therefore finite. So we have a finite flat group scheme. Because of (n,p)=1 mathcalA[n] is étale over mathbbZ(p) (how to show this?). We have for X/S finite étale



Consider the reduction map mathcalA[n]eta(mathbfQ)=mathcalA[n](T)tomathcalA[n]p(mathbfFp) for (n,p)=1, confer Liu, Chapter 10.1.3. Liu, Proposition 10.1.40(b) gives us one-point fibres of the reduction map.

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