Formal groups, supersingular abelian varieties and tame ramification

Abstract

Let us consider an abelian variety defined over Q ℓ with good supersingular reduction. In this paper we give explicit conditions that ensure that the action of the wild inertia group on the ℓ-torsion points of the variety is trivial. Furthermore we give a family of curves of genus 2 such that their Jacobian surfaces have good supersingular reduction and satisfy these conditions. We address this question by means of a detailed study of the formal group law attached to abelian varieties.