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A CHARACTERIZATION OF SPECIAL SUBVARIETIES

Part of: Arithmetic problems. Diophantine geometry Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2011

Emmanuel Ullmo  and
Andrei Yafaev
Emmanuel Ullmo
Affiliation:
Departement de Mathématique, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (email: ullmo@math.u-psud.fr)
Andrei Yafaev
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, U.K. (email: yafaev@math.ucl.ac.uk)
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Abstract

We prove that an algebraic subvariety of a Shimura variety is weakly special if and only if analytic components of its preimage in the symmetric space are algebraic. We also prove an analogous result in the case of abelian varieties.

MSC classification

Secondary: 14G35: Modular and Shimura varieties 14G10: Zeta-functions and related questions (Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) 53C35: Symmetric spaces
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , July 2011 , pp. 263 - 273
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Copyright © University College London 2011

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