Torsion points on theta divisors (Q2832809)

Using the irreducibility of a natural irreducible representation of the theta group of an ample line bundle on an abelian variety, the authors derive a bound for the number of \(n-\)torsion points that lie on a given theta divisor. They present also two alternate approaches to attacking the case \(n = 2.\) The goal of this paper is to give a stronger bound for \(\Theta(n).\) The main theorem gives the following:NEWLINENEWLINETheorem 1.1. Let \((A,\Theta)\) be a complex principally polarized abelian variety. Then \(\Theta(2) \leq 4^{g} - g 2^{g-1} - 2^{g},\) and for \(n \geq 3,\) \(\Theta(n) \leq n^{2g} - (g + 1) n^{g}.\) The authors can make this bound better if \((A,\Theta)\) is decomposable.