Une relation entre deux approches du problème de Schottky. (A relation between two approaches to the Schottky problem) (Q1112124)

There are two main methods of geometric approach to the Schottky problem. One is by Andreotti and Mayer who use the singularities of the theta divisor \(\Theta\). Let \({\mathcal A}_ g\) be the moduli space of principal polarized abelian varieties of dimension g. They proved that the adherence of jacobians in \({\mathfrak A}_ g\) is an irreducible component of the subvariety of \({\mathcal A}_ g\) formed of principal polarized abelian varieties \((A,\Theta)\) with dim(Sing\((\Theta))\geq g-4.\) Another proof is by Weil who approaches on the basis of the reducibility of \(\Theta \cap \Theta_ a\). This leads to four conditions such that a principal polarized abelian variety \((A,\Theta)\) be jacobian. The present authors prove that, roughly speaking, each of these conditions implies the Andreotti-Mayer condition.