Edited 4-embeddings of Jacobians

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1091112078MaRDI QIDQ1884407zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Greg W. Anderson

Publication date 1 November 2004

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209413

zbMATH Keywords

Abel-Jacobi maptheta functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42)

Abstract: By the Lefschetz embedding theorem, a principally polarized $g$-dimensional abelian variety is embedded into projective space by the linear system of $4^g$ half-characteristic theta functions. Suppose we {em edit} this linear system by dropping all the theta functions vanishing at the origin to order greater than parity requires. We prove that for Jacobians the edited $4Theta$ linear system still defines an embedding into projective space. Moreover, we prove that the projective models of Jacobians arising from the elementary construction of Jacobians recently given by the author are (after passage to linear hulls) copies of the edited $4Theta$ model. Thus, for all compact Riemann surfaces, we tie together algebraic and analytic Jacobians in a new way.

Review text

The paper is a continuation of a previous paper of the author [Adv. Math. 172, 169--205 (2002; Zbl 1065.14035)]. Here he considers the question what linear system of effective divisors arises from the associate projective embedding. The final answer is described in a relatively simple way by a so-called ``edited \(4\Theta\) system given by a certain system of theta functions, but the way to this result is rather involved. It mixes modern complex algebraic geometry with Weil's language and very classical theta relations. Apart from the problem considered here, its methods may be useful for many people working in the area.

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