Inverse limits of CM points on certain Shimura varieties

TL;DR

This paper studies inverse limits of CM points on certain Shimura varieties, revealing their deep connections to class field theory and Galois groups through explicit geometric structures.

Contribution

It establishes that inverse limits of CM points form groups isomorphic to specific Galois groups, providing a geometric interpretation of class field theory.

Findings

Inverse limits inherit group structures isomorphic to Galois groups.

Explicit geometric interpretation of class field theory.

Connections between CM points, Shimura varieties, and Galois groups.

Abstract

Let $N$ be a positive integer, and let $D\equiv0$ or $1\Mod{4}$ be a negative integer. We define the sets $\mathcal{CM}(D,\,Y_1(N)^\pm)$ and $\mathcal{CM}(D,\,Y(N)^\pm)$ as subsets of the Shimura varieties $Y_1(N)^\pm$ and $Y(N)^\pm$, respectively, consisting of CM points of discriminant $D$ that are primitive modulo $N$. By using the theory of definite form class groups, we show that the inverse limits \begin{equation*} \varprojlim_N\,\mathcal{CM}(D,\,Y_1(N)^\pm)\quad\textrm{and}\quad \varprojlim_N\,\mathcal{CM}(D,\,Y(N)^\pm) \end{equation*} naturally inherit group structures isomorphic to $\mathrm{Gal}(K^\mathrm{ab}/\mathbb{Q})$ and $\mathrm{Gal}(K^\mathrm{ab}(t^{1/\infty})/\mathbb{Q}(t))$, respectively, where $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{D})$ and $t$ is a transcendental number. These results provide an explicit and geometric interpretation of class field theory in terms of inverse limits of CM points on the associated Shimura varieties.