The locus of real multiplication and the Schottky locus

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2012-0019MaRDI QIDQ2450160zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matt Bainbridge, Martin Möller

Publication date 16 May 2014

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3832

zbMATH Keywords

Deligne-Mumford compactificationHilbert modular varietyJacobian varietySchottky locusTorelli map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Algebraic moduli of abelian varieties, classification (14K10) Hermitian symmetric spaces, bounded symmetric domains, Jordan algebras (complex-analytic aspects) (32M15)

Abstract: We prove that the generic point of a Hilbert modular four-fold is not a Jacobian. The proof uses degeneration techniques and is independent of properties of the mapping class group used in preceding papers on locally symmetric subvarieties of the moduli space of abelian varieties contained in the Schottky locus.

Review text

For \(g \geq 1\) we denote by \(\mathcal A_g\) the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension \(g\), by \(\mathcal M_g\) the moduli space of curves of genus \(g\), and by \(t: \mathcal{M}_g \to \mathcal{A}_g\) the Torelli map. The Schottky locus is the image of \(t\). As is well known, \(t(\mathcal{M}_g) = \mathcal{A}_g\) if and only if \(g \leq 3\). A web of conjectures (see [\textit{B. Moonen} and \textit{F. Oort}, Advanced Lectures in Mathematics (ALM) 25, 549--594 (2013; Zbl 1322.14065)]) suggests that for \(g \geq 8\), there are no special (Shimura) subvarieties \(Z\) of \(\mathcal A_g\) such that the generic point of \(Z\) lies in the image of \(t\). In support of these conjectures, \textit{J. de Jong} and \textit{S.-W. Zhang} [Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (CRM) Series (Nuova Serie) 4, 165--172 (2007; Zbl 1138.14027)] showed that for \(g > 4\), a Hilbert modular variety parametrizing abelian varieties with real multiplication is not contained in the closure of \(t(\mathcal{M}_g)\). The paper under review extends this result to the case \(g=4\). The proof is based on the study of the boundary of a Hilbert modular variety in the Deligne-Mumford compactification.

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• On the period matrix of a Riemann surface of large genus (with an appendix by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane)
• The geometric torsion conjecture for abelian varieties with real multiplication
• The Oort conjecture on Shimura curves in the Torelli locus of curves
• Curves in Hilbert modular varieties
• Shimura subvarieties via endomorphisms
• Multivariable root loci on the real axis†
• On Shimura curves in the Schottky locus
• On Shimura curves in the Schottky locus
• Abelian varieties isogenous to a Jacobian
• The Schottky Problem for Hyperelliptic Real Curves
• Teichmüller curves in genus three and just likely intersections in \(\mathbf{G}_{m}^{n}\times\mathbf{G}_{a}^{n}\)

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