LMFDB definition
Galois representations of genus 2 Jacobians
If is the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve defined over a field and is a positive integer, then the mod- Galois representation attached to is the continuous homomorphism describing the action of the absolute Galois group of on the -torsion subgroup .
When the characteristic of does not divide , we may identify the finite abelian group with . Since the Weil pairing is a non-degenerate, alternating, bilinear pairing equivariant with respect to the natural Galois action, we may view the representation as a map defined up to conjugation. In particular, when is prime different from the characteristic of , we have the mod- Galois representation Taking the inverse limit over prime powers yields the -adic Galois representation attached to , which describes the action of the absolute Galois group of on , the -adic Tate module of .
When has characteristic zero one can take the inverse limit over all positive integers (ordered by divisibility) to obtain the adelic Galois representation
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