A Simple Remark on Fields of Definition
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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0716-09172012000100003Keywords:
Algebraic curves, field of moduli, field of definition, curvas algebraicas, campo de módulos, campo de definición.Abstract
Let K< L be an extension of fields, in characteristic zero, with L algebraically closed and let K< L be the algebraic closure of K in L. Let X and Y be irreducible projective algebraic varieties, X defined over K and Y defined over L, and let π : X → Y be a non-constant morphism, defined over L. If we assume that K ≠ L,then one may wonder if Y is definable over K. In the case that K = Q, L = C and that X and Y are smooth curves, a positive answer was obtained by Gonzalez-Diez. In this short note we provide simple conditions to have a positive answer to the above question. We also state a conjecture for a class of varieties of general type.
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