%0 Journal Article %T Generalized Legendre curves and Quaternionic Multiplication %A Alyson Deines %A Jenny G. Fuselier %A Ling Long %A Holly Swisher %A Fang-Ting Tu %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.jnt.2015.04.019 %X This paper is devoted to abelian varieties arising from generalized Legendre curves. In particular, we consider their corresponding Galois representations, periods, and endomorphism algebras. For certain one parameter families of 2-dimensional abelian varieties of this kind, we determine when the endomorphism algebra of each fiber defined over the algebraic closure of $\Bbb Q$ contains a quaternion algebra. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6906v3