Non-simple abelian varieties in a family: arithmetic approaches

Abstract

Inspired by the work of Ellenberg, Elsholtz, Hall, and Kowalski, we investigate how the property of the generic fiber of a one-parameter family of abelian varieties being geometrically simple extends to other fibers. In \cite{EEHK09}, the authors studied a special case involving specific one-parameter families of Jacobians of curves using analytic methods. We generalize their results, particularly Theorem B, to all families of abelian varieties with big geometric monodromy, employing an arithmetic approach. Our method applies Heath-Brown-type bounds on certain covers with level structures and optimizes the covers to derive the desired results.