Conjectures in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry A Survey

In this expository text we sketch some interrelations between several famous conjectures in number theory and algebraic geometry that have intrigued math­ ematicians for a long period of time. Starting from Fermat's Last Theorem one is naturally led to in

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Wilfred W. J. Hulsbergen

Conjectures in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry A Survey Second Edition

Wilfred W. j. Hulsbergen Conjectures in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry

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G. Hector/U. Hirsch: Introduction to the Geometry of Foliations, Part B

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P. Stiller: Automorphic Forms and the Picard Number of an Elliptic Surface

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W. Stoll: Value Distribution Theory for Meromorphic Maps

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A. Howard/P.-M. Wong (Eds.): Contribution to Several Complex Variables

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H. Fujimoto: Value Distribution Theory of the Gauss Map of Minimal Surfaces in Rm

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A. P. Fordy/J. C. Wood (Eds.): Harmonic Maps and Integrable Systems

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D. S. Alexander: A History of Complex Dynamics

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Conjectures in Arithmetic Algebraic Geollletry Wilfred W. J. Hulsbergen

A Survey Second Revised Edition

II Vleweg

Wilfred W. J. Hulsbergen KMA, NL-4800 RG Breda The N etherlands

AMS subject classification: llG, llM, 14C, 14G, 14H, 14K, 190, 19E, 19F.

First Edition 1992 Second Revised Edition 1994 Ali rights reserved © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1994 Originally published by Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. BraunschweiglWiesbaden in 1994

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ISSN 0179-2156 ISBN 978-3-663-09507-1 ISBN 978-3-663-09505-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-663-09505-7

Contents Introduction

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1 The 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5

zero-dimensional case: number fields Class Numbers . . . . . . . Dirichlet L-Functions . . . . The Class Number Formula Abelian Number Fields . . . Non-abelian Number Fields and Artin L-Functions

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2 The 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2. 7 2.8

one-dimensional case: elliptic curves General Features of Elliptic Curves Varieties over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . L-Functions of Elliptic Curves . . . . . . . Complex Multiplication and Modular Elliptic Curves Arithmetic of