Vol. 7, No. 9, 2013

Download this article
Download this article For screen
For printing
Recent Issues

Volume 18
Issue 9, 1589–1766
Issue 8, 1403–1587
Issue 7, 1221–1401
Issue 6, 1039–1219
Issue 5, 847–1038
Issue 4, 631–846
Issue 3, 409–629
Issue 2, 209–408
Issue 1, 1–208

Volume 17, 12 issues

Volume 16, 10 issues

Volume 15, 10 issues

Volume 14, 10 issues

Volume 13, 10 issues

Volume 12, 10 issues

Volume 11, 10 issues

Volume 10, 10 issues

Volume 9, 10 issues

Volume 8, 10 issues

Volume 7, 10 issues

Volume 6, 8 issues

Volume 5, 8 issues

Volume 4, 8 issues

Volume 3, 8 issues

Volume 2, 8 issues

Volume 1, 4 issues

The Journal
About the journal
Ethics and policies
Peer-review process
 
Submission guidelines
Submission form
Editorial board
Editors' interests
 
Subscriptions
 
ISSN 1944-7833 (online)
ISSN 1937-0652 (print)
 
Author index
To appear
 
Other MSP journals
Vinberg's representations and arithmetic invariant theory

Jack A. Thorne

Vol. 7 (2013), No. 9, 2331–2368
Abstract

Recently, Bhargava and others have proved very striking results about the average size of Selmer groups of Jacobians of algebraic curves over as these curves are varied through certain natural families. Their methods center around the idea of counting integral points in coregular representations, whose rational orbits can be shown to be related to Galois cohomology classes for the Jacobians of these algebraic curves.

In this paper we construct for each simply laced Dynkin diagram a coregular representation (G,V ) and a family of algebraic curves over the geometric quotient VG. We show that the arithmetic of the Jacobians of these curves is related to the arithmetic of the rational orbits of G. In the case of type A2, we recover the correspondence between orbits and Galois cohomology classes used by Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer and later by Bhargava and Shankar in their works concerning the 2-Selmer groups of elliptic curves over .

Keywords
arithmetic invariant theory, Galois cohomology, arithmetic of algebraic curves
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 20G30
Secondary: 11E72
Milestones
Received: 8 November 2012
Revised: 14 February 2013
Accepted: 17 March 2013
Published: 18 December 2013
Authors
Jack A. Thorne
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States