Integrality of Seshadri constants and irreducibility of principal polarizations on products of two isogenous elliptic curves (Q2148099)

In the paper under review the author studies the integrality of Seshadri constants and irreducibility of principal polarizations on products of two isogenous elliptic curves. Let us recall that for an ample line bundle \(L\) on a smooth projective variety \(X\), the Seshadri constant of \(L\) at a point \(x \in X\) is by definition the real number \[\varepsilon(L;x) = \mathrm{inf} \bigg\{ \frac{L\cdot C}{\mathrm{mult}_{x}\, (C)} \, : \, C \text{ is an irreducible curve through } x\bigg\}.\] The main aim of the paper under review is to understand when all Seshadri constants on a given abelian surface are integers. Here the author focuses on the case when \(X\) is a product \(E_{1} \times E_{2}\) of two isogenous elliptic curves without complex multiplication. The main result of the paper under review can be formulated as follows. Main Theorem. All Seshadri constants on \(E_{1} \times E_{2}\) are integers if and only if the minimal degree \(d\) of an isogeny \(E_{1} \rightarrow E_{2}\) equals to \(1\) or \(2\). In the context of the irreducibility of principle polarizations, the author shows that there exists an irreducible principal polarization on \(E_{1} \times E_{2}\) if and only if the minimal degree of an isogeny \(d\) can be written as \[d = AC-B^{2}, \quad A,B,C \in \mathbb{Z}, \quad 0 < 2B\leq A \leq C, \text{ and } \mathrm{gcd}(A,B,C)=1.\]