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Not every abelian variety over a Dedekind function field extends to an abelian scheme
Statement refuted
Every abelian variety over the function field of a Dedekind scheme extends to an abelian scheme over that scheme, i.e. has good reduction.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC and DC, inherited from the cited suppliers; an algebraically closed field of characteristic not or , the complete discrete valuation ring with fraction field , and the smooth cubic with origin , an elliptic curve over .
Multiplication by on an abelian scheme of relative dimension one over a base where is invertible is finite etale of rank , and over a complete DVR with separably closed residue field reduction of a finite etale scheme is a bijection on points (Multiplication by n on an abelian scheme is finite flat, and etale for n invertible, Finite etale schemes over a complete local ring and splitting).
The two-torsion of is together with the points with , i.e. the roots of in (Two-torsion and uniqueness of the group law on a Weierstrass cubic, Valuative criterion for properness); good reduction means the existence of an abelian scheme model (Good reduction of an abelian variety over a Dedekind scheme).
Counterexample
The curve is an elliptic curve over by the chord-tangent construction, and has no root in : a root would satisfy for the valuation , impossible for an integer valuation. Hence by [F2], a set with one element.
Suppose there were an abelian scheme model with generic fibre . By [F1] multiplication by is finite etale of rank on , so is finite etale over ; properness of extends each -point of uniquely to , and finite etale lifting identifies with . The special fibre is an elliptic curve over (characteristic not ), so has four elements by the multiplication theorem, whence would have four elements, contradicting step 1.1.
This contradiction proves that no abelian scheme model of over exists: the elliptic curve has bad reduction. The companion example records the explicit ramified extension with over which the curve acquires good reduction, so the absence of a model over is genuinely a failure of descent and not an artifact of the chosen equation.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an $\mathbb{N}$-indexed chain
- An elliptic curve with good reduction and an elliptic curve with bad reduction
- Good reduction of an abelian variety over a Dedekind scheme
- Multiplication by n on an abelian scheme is finite flat, and etale for n invertible
- Finite etale schemes over a complete local ring and splitting
- Two-torsion and uniqueness of the group law on a Weierstrass cubic
- Valuative criterion for properness
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Sources
- J. S. Milne, Elliptic Curves, v2.0, Chapter VII (bad reduction examples) (standard reference, not scraped)
- D. Lombardo, Abelian varieties lecture notes (2018), Chapter 1 sections 1-7 (absence of good models) (standard reference, not scraped)