In algebraic geometry, a semistable abelian variety is an abelian variety defined over a global or local field, which is characterized by how it reduces at the primes of the field.
For an Abelian variety A defined over a field F with ring of integers R, consider the Néron model of A, which is a 'best possible' model of A defined over R. This model may be represented as a scheme over
- Spec(R)
(cf. spectrum of a ring) for which the generic fibre constructed by means of the morphism
- Spec(F) → Spec(R)
gives back A. Let A0 denote the open subgroup scheme of the Néron model whose fibres are the connected components. For a residue field k, A0k is a group variety over k, hence an extension of an abelian variety by a linear group. If this linear group is an algebraic torus, so that A0k is a semiabelian variety, then A has semistable reduction at the prime corresponding to k. If F is global, then A is semistable if it has good or semistable reduction at all primes.
The semistable reduction theorem of Alexander Grothendieck states that an abelian variety acquires semistable reduction over a finite extension of F.
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