Tame Galois realizations of GSp_4(F_l) over Q
arXiv:0910.1445
Abstract
In this paper we obtain realizations of the 4-dimensional general symplectic group over a prime field of characteristic as the Galois group of a tamely ramified Galois extension of . The strategy is to consider the Galois representation attached to the Tate module at of a suitable abelian surface. We need to choose the abelian varieties carefully in order to ensure that the image of is large and simultaneously maintain a control on the ramification of the corresponding Galois extension. We obtain an explicit family of curves of genus 2 such that the Galois representation attached to the -torsion points of their Jacobian varieties provide tame Galois realizations of the desired symplectic groups.
29 pages