On the integrality of Seshadri constants of abelian surfaces

DOI10.1007/S40879-019-00369-WMaRDI QIDQ2663783zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Bauer, Felix Fritz Grimm, Maximilian Schmidt

Publication date 20 April 2021

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05413

zbMATH Keywords

abelian surfacecomplex multiplicationelliptic curveintegralSeshadri constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Elliptic curves (14H52) Complex multiplication and abelian varieties (14K22)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the question of when Seshadri constants on abelian surfaces are integers. Our first result concerns self-products $EimesE$ of elliptic curves: If $E$ has complex multiplication in $$ or in $$ or if $E$ has no complex multiplication at all, then it is known that for every ample line bundle $L$ on $EimesE$, the Seshadri constant $eps(L)$ is an integer. We show that, contrary to what one might expect, these are in fact the only elliptic curves for which this integrality statement holds. Our second result answers the question how -- on any abelian surface~-- integrality of Seshadri constants is related to elliptic curves.

Review text

In the paper under review, the authors study the integrality of the Seshadri constants on certain abelian surfaces. Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety and let \(L\) be an ample line bundle on it, the Seshadri constant of \(L\) at point \(x \in X\) is defined as \[\varepsilon(L;x) = \mathrm{inf} \bigg\{ \frac{L.C}{\mathrm{mult}_{x}(C)} \, : \, C \text{ is an irreducible curve through } x\bigg\}.\] We know that on abelian varieties these constants are independent of the chosen point \(x\). In the present note the authors focus on the case of dimension \(2\), namely abelian surfaces which are the self-products \(E \times E\), where \(E\) is an elliptic curve. The first main result can be formulated as follows. Theorem A. Let \(E\) be an elliptic curve with complex multiplication. Then the following conditions are equivalent: i) For every ample line bundle \(L\) on \(E \times E\), the Seshadri constant \(\varepsilon(L)\) is an integer. ii) Either \(\mathrm{End}(E) = \mathbb{Z}[i]\) or \(\mathrm{End}(E) = \mathbb{Z}[(1+i\sqrt{3})/2]\). In order to prove the above result, the authors establish how the integrality is related to the geometry of elliptic curves. One direction is rather easy, if all Seshadri constants on a given abelian surface are computed by elliptic curves, then certainly those numbers are all integers. It is natural to wonder whether the converse statement holds true. The answer on this question is the content of the next result. Theorem B. Let \(X\) be an abelian surface. The following conditions are equivalent: i) For every ample line bundle \(L\) on \(X\), the Seshadri constant \(\varepsilon(L)\) is an integer. ii) For every ample line bundle \(L\) on \(X\), either \(\varepsilon(L) = \sqrt{L^{2}}\) and \(\sqrt{L^{2}}\) is an integer, or \(\varepsilon(L)\) is computed by an elliptic curve, i.e., there exists an elliptic curve \(E \subset X\) such that \[\varepsilon(L) = L\cdot E.\]

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