On Mumford's construction of degenerating abelian varieties (Q1961358)
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On Mumford's construction of degenerating abelian varieties (English)
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17 January 2000
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It is shown that there is a canonical degeneration of one-dimensional families of principally polarized abelian varieties with theta divisor. Moreover a combinatorial description and basic properties of the family and its central fibre are given.
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canonical degeneration
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principally polarized abelian varieties
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theta divisor
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