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Publications and source records attributed to Celine Maistret.
Assuming finiteness of the Tate--Shafarevich group, we prove that the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture correctly predicts the parity of the rank of semistable principally polarised abelian surfaces. If the surface in question is the Jacobian of a curve, we require that the curve has good ordinary reduction at 2-adic places.
The Birch and Swinnerton--Dyer conjecture famously predicts that the rank of an elliptic curve can be computed from its $L$-function. In this article we consider a weaker version of this conjecture called the parity conjecture and prove the following. Let $E_1$ and $E_2$ be two elliptic curves defined over a number field $K$ whose 2-torsion groups are isomorphic as Galois modules. Assuming finiteness of the Shafarevich-Tate groups of $E_1$ and $E_2$, we show that the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture correctly predicts the parity of the rank of $E_1\times E_2$. Using this result, we complete the proof of the $p$-parity conjecture for elliptic curves over totally real fields.
In this paper, we explore three combinatorial descriptions of semistable types of hyperelliptic curves over local fields: dual graphs, their quotient trees by the hyperelliptic involution, and configurations of the roots of the defining equation (`cluster pictures'). We construct explicit combinatorial one-to-one correspondences between the three, which furthermore respect automorphisms and allow to keep track of the monodromy pairing and the Tamagawa group of the Jacobian. We introduce a classification scheme and a naming convention for semistable types of hyperelliptic curves and types with a Frobenius action. This is the higher genus analogue of the distinction between good, split and non-split multiplicative reduction for elliptic curves. Our motivation is to understand $L$-factors, Galois representations, conductors, Tamagawa numbers and other local invariants of hyperelliptic curves and their Jacobians.