On the Chow-forms of elliptic normal curves of degree 4 (Q5933597)

Let \(H=\{z\in\mathbb{C}: \text{Im} z>0\}\) and \(\tau\) be a point in \(H\). Denote by \(E_\tau\) the complex torus \(\mathbb{C}/(\mathbb{Z}+ \tau\mathbb{Z})\) and by \(X_\tau\) the degree 4 curve embedding of \(E_\tau\) in \(\mathbb{P}^3\) via theta functions. The author computes, using elimination theory, the Chow form \(C(\tau)\) of \(X_\tau\) and proves that \(C(\tau)\) belongs to the 4-degree part \(M\) of the homogeneous coordinates ring of the Grassmannian of lines in \(\mathbb{P}^3\). By applying a method of \textit{D. Mumford} developed in the book ``Tata lectures on theta. I'' [Prog. Math. 28 (1983; Zbl 0509.14049)] the author proves that the coefficients of \(C(\tau)\) are modular forms on \(H\) of weight 2 and level 4, and that the map from \(H\) to the Zariski closure \(C\) of \(\{C(\tau): \tau \in H\}\subset M\) given by \(\tau \mapsto C(\tau)\), can be extended to the inequivalent cusps of the principal congruence subgroup \(\Gamma(4)\) of level 4. He also shows that \(C\) is a rational curve of degree 4 (the 2-tuple embedding of the conic containing the image of the embedding \(H/\Gamma(4) \to\mathbb{P}^2\) given by theta-constants). As a corollary the author gets that there is a natural dominating morphism from \(SL(4,C) \times C\) onto the component \(\Sigma\) of the Chow variety of 1-cycles of degree 4 in \(\mathbb{P}^3\) that contains \(C\), induced by the canonical action.