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A CHARACTERIZATION OF SPECIAL SUBVARIETIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2011

Emmanuel Ullmo
Affiliation:
Departement de Mathématique, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (email: [email protected])
Andrei Yafaev
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, U.K. (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

We prove that an algebraic subvariety of a Shimura variety is weakly special if and only if analytic components of its preimage in the symmetric space are algebraic. We also prove an analogous result in the case of abelian varieties.

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Copyright © University College London 2011

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