The Mumford-Tate conjecture implies the algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture of Banaszak and Kedlaya

Abstract

The algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture was initially introduced by Serre and then discussed by Banaszak and Kedlaya. This note shows that the Mumford-Tate conjecture for an abelian variety A implies the algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture for A. The relevance of this result lies mainly in the fact that the list of known cases of the Mumford-Tate conjecture was up to now a lot longer than the list of known cases of the algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture.