Big symplectic or orthogonal monodromy modulo l

2006/08/29 by Hall, Chris
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0608718

Abstract

Let k be a field not of characteristic two and L be a set of almost all rational primes invertible in k. Suppose we have a variety X/k and strictly compatible system M_ell -> X : ell in L of constructible F_ell-sheaves. If the system is orthogonally or symplectically self-dual, then the geometric monodromy group of M_ell is a subgroup of a corresponding isometry group G_ell over F_ell, and we say it has big monodromy if it contains the derived subgroup DG_ell=[G_ell,G_ell]. We prove a theorem which gives sufficient conditions for M_ell to have big monodromy. We apply the theorem to explicit systems arising from the middle cohomology of families of hyperelliptic curves and elliptic surfaces to show that the monodromy is uniformly big as we vary ell and the system.

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