Towards a stratification of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties (Q4027237)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00049.] The aim of this paper is to give a contribution to the problem of finding a stratification of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties. [For a different approach see \textit{C. Birkenhake} and \textit{H. Lange}, Math. Ann. 290, No. 4, 801-814 (1991; Zbl 0773.14024).] In this paper the author puts in evidence the relations among the following properties of a principally polarized abelian variety \((X,\Theta)\) of dimension \(g\). (1) Existence of a curve of \(m\)-plane \((m+2)\)-secant to the Kummer variety \(K(X)\) of \((X,\Theta)\). (2) Existence of a \(m\)-plane \((m+2)\)-secant to \(K(X)\). (3) Existence of a curve in \(X\) which class is \(m\) times the minimal class. (4) \(\dim \Theta_{\text{sing}} \geq g-2m-2\). (5) \((X,\Theta)\) is the Prym-Tjurin variety associated to a correspondence \(D\) satisfying \[ (D-1)\cdot(D+M-1)=0. \] Assuming \(X\) sufficiently general, the author shows that the following implications hold \[ (1)\Rightarrow(2) \Rightarrow(4), \quad (1) \Rightarrow(3), \quad (5) \Rightarrow (4). \] Moreover \textit{G. E. Welters} [in Indagationes Math. 49, 87-109 (1987; Zbl 0644.14014)] proved \((5)\Rightarrow(3)\).