Severi varieties and Brill-Noether theory of curves on abelian surfaces (Q1741451)

Analogous to the polarized \(K3\) surfaces, in this paper, the Severi varieties of nodal curves on polarized abelian surfaces are studied. As the first main result, it has been shown that for a general abelian surface \(S\) with a polarization \(L\) of type \( (1, n) \), the Severi variety parametrizing \(\delta\)-nodal curves in \(|L|\) is nonempty and smooth of expected codimension \(\delta\). The second result computes the dimension of the locus \(\mathfrak{U}_{g,n}\subset \mathcal{M}_g\) of smooth curves of genus \(g\) possessing a \(\delta\)-nodal model as a hyperplane section of a \( (1, n) \)-polarized abelian surface. The major part of this paper deals with the Brill-Noether theory of curves in the linear series \(|L|\). In particular, the expected dimension of the Brill-Nother loci \(|L|^r_{\delta,d}\), parametrizing \(\delta\)-nodal curves whose stable model admits a linear series \(g^r_d\), and a necessary condition for their nonemptiness is provided. The proof of most results relies on degeneration to a semi-abelian surface constructed by identifying two sections of a \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-bundle over an elliptic curve.