On Frobenius' theta formula

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2020.057MaRDI QIDQ2190683zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alessio Fiorentino, Riccardo Salvati Manni

Publication date 21 June 2020

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05099

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperelliptic curvestheta functionsKummer varietyJacobians of hyperelliptic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25) Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Subvarieties of abelian varieties (14K12)

Abstract: Mumford's well-known characterization of the hyperelliptic locus of the moduli space of ppavs in terms of vanishing and non-vanishing theta constants is based on Neumann's dynamical system. Poor's approach to the characterization uses the cross ratio. A key tool in both methods is Frobenius' theta formula, which follows from Riemann's theta formula. In a 2004 paper Grushevsky gives a different characterization in terms of cubic equations in second order theta functions. In this note we first show the connection between the methods by proving that Grushevsky's cubic equations are strictly related to Frobenius' theta formula and we then give a new proof of Mumford's characterization via Gunning's multisecant formula.

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