On addition formulae for sigma functions of telescopic curves (Q352533)

The purpose of the present paper is to study the multivariate sigma functions of telescopic curves and derive addition formulae together with their degenerate limits. Recall that a telescopic curve is a certain algebraic curve defined by \(m -1\) equations in the affine space of dimension \(m\), which can be a hyperelliptic curve and an \((n, s)\) curve as a special case. The authors extend the addition formulae for sigma functions of \((n, s)\) curves to those of telescopic curves. The expression of the prime form in terms of the derivative of the sigma function is also given. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 the definition and examples of telescopic curves are given. The construction of the sigma function, up to the normalization constant, associated with telescopic curves is reviewed in Section 3. The local coordinate \(z\) at \(1\) is specified and the expression in terms of \(z\) of the variables appearing in the defining equations of the curve is given. This is necessary to determine constants appearing in every formula in later sections. In Section 4 the expression of the tau function is given using the sigma function. The normalization constant necessary in the definition of the sigma function is specified with the help of it. In Section 5 main results including the addition formulae are given. Their proofs are indicated in Section 6. The example of addition formulae is given for a \((4;, 6, 5)\) curve in Section 7. In Appendix A the detailed properties on the series expansion of the sigma function are given for the sake of completeness of the construction of the sigma function.