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Endomorphism algebras of superelliptic jacobians

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We describe an explicit construction that provides a plenty of complex abelian varieties whose endomorphism algebra is a product of cyclotomic fields.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Yuri G. Zarhin

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  1. Department of Mathematics Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, 10012, USA

    Fedor Bogomolov

  2. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Yuri Tschinkel

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Zarhin, Y.G. (2005). Endomorphism algebras of superelliptic jacobians. In: Bogomolov, F., Tschinkel, Y. (eds) Geometric Methods in Algebra and Number Theory. Progress in Mathematics, vol 235. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4417-2_15

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