A Grunwald-Wang type theorem for abelian varieties

Let A be an abelian variety over a number field k. We show that weak approximation holds in the Weil-Châtelet group of A/k but that it may fail when one restricts to the n-torsion subgroup. This failure is however relatively mild; we show that weak approximation holds outside a finite set of primes which is generically empty. This proves a conjecture of Lang and Tate that can be seen as an analog of the Grunwald-Wang theorem in class field theory. The methods apply, for the most part, to arbitrary finite Galois modules and so may be of interest in their own right.

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