2003/11/09 by Zarhin, Yuri G.
#14H40 #14K05 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0311137
In his previous papers the author proved that in characteristic different from 2 the jacobian J(C) of a hyperelliptic curve C: y2=f(x) has only trivial endomorphisms over an algebraic closure Ka of the ground field K if the Galois group of the irreducible polynomial f(x) in K[x] is either the full symmetric group Sn or the alternating group An. Here n > 8 is the degree of f. The goal of this paper is to extend this result to the case when either n=7,8 or n=5,6 and char(K)>3.