The geometry of the Coble cubic and orbital degeneracy loci

DOI10.1007/S00208-019-01949-7MaRDI QIDQ2225615zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vladimiro Benedetti, Laurent Manivel, Fabio Tanturri

Publication date 8 February 2021

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10848

zbMATH Keywords

abelian surfacealternating trivectorflag varietyKummer fourfold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on curves and their moduli (14H60) (4)-folds (14J35) Abelian varieties and schemes (14K99) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: The Coble cubics were discovered more than a century ago in connection with genus two Riemann surfaces and theta functions. They have attracted renewed interest ever since. Recently, they were reinterpreted in terms of alternating trivectors in nine variables. Exploring this relation further, we show how the Hilbert scheme of pairs of points on an abelian surface, and also its Kummer fourfold, a very remarkable hyper-K"ahler manifold, can very naturally be constructed in this context. Moreover, we explain how this perspective allows us to describe the group law of an abelian surface, in a strikingly similar way to how the group structure of a plane cubic can be defined in terms of its intersection with lines.

Review text

Let \(V_9\) be a \(9\)-dimensional \(\mathbb C\)-vector space. In the article [\textit{L. Gruson} and \textit{S. V. Sam}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 110, No. 3, 755--785 (2015; Zbl 1354.14019)] it is shown how to associate to a general trivector \(\omega\in\bigwedge^3 V_9\) a cubic hypersurface \(\mathcal C_3\) and a \((3,3)\)-polarized abelian surface \(A\) both contained in \(\mathbb P(\check{V_9})\). \(A\) is the singular locus of \(\mathcal C_3\), that results to be the classical Coble hypersurface.\par Here the authors apply the theory of orbital degeneracy loci, developed in [\textit{V. Benedetti} et al., Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Cl. Sci. (5) 21, 169--206 (2020; Zbl 07373216); \textit{V. Benedetti} et al., Int. Math. Res. Not. 2020, No. 24, 9887--9932 (2020; Zbl 1462.14046)], to associate to \(\omega\) some interesting varieties contained in the dual space \(\mathbb P(V_9)\), and explain the rich geometry underlying these constructions and the relations with \(A\) and \(\mathcal C_3\). The obtained varieties are the generalized Kummer fourfold Kum\(^2(A)\), the Hilbert scheme Hilb\(^2(A)\), and the nested Kummer fourfold Kum\(^{2,3}(A)\).\par This point of view allows them to obtain an explicit description of the group structure on \(A\) (once an origin is fixed) similar to the classical geometrical description of the group structure on a plane cubic curve.

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