Very ampleness of multiples of principal polarization on degenerate abelian surfaces (Q558714)

If \(A\) is an abelian variety, in particular an abelian surface, with a principal polarisation given by an ample line bundle \({\mathcal O}_A(1)\), it is well-known that \({\mathcal O}_A(3)\) is very ample. If \(A\) is allowed to degenerate to a semi-abelian variety \(X\) over the second Voronoi boundary of the moduli space, as in the work of \textit{Alexeev} and \textit{I. Nakamura} [Tohoku Math. J. 51, 399--420 (1999; Zbl 0989.14003)], then it is known that \({\mathcal O}_X(2g+1)\) is very ample, where \(g\) is the dimension. Here it is proved, by a careful case-by-case analysis, that in the surface case \({\mathcal O}_X(3)\) is already very ample.