2003/08/31 by Alexandru Ghitza, Ghitza, Alexandru
Mathematics · #11F46 #11F55 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT) #math.AG #math.NT #msc:11F46 #msc:11F55
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0309006
28 pages; submitted to the Journal of Number Theory. Based on chapter 3 of math.NT/0306224, reworked and corrected. Comments are welcome
arxiv created 2003/08/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
In a letter to Tate (published in Israel J. Math. in 1996), J.-P. Serre proves that the systems of Hecke eigenvalues given by modular forms (mod p) are the same as the ones given by locally constant functions on an adelic double coset space constructed from the endomorphism algebra of a supersingular elliptic curve. We generalize this result to Siegel modular forms, proving that the systems of Hecke eigenvalues given by Siegel modular forms (mod p) are the same as the ones given by algebraic modular forms (mod p) on a quaternionic unitary group, as defined by Gross in Israel J. Math. in 1999. The correspondence is obtained by restricting to the superspecial locus of the moduli space of abelian varieties.