On a numerical characterization of non-simple principally polarized abelian varieties

DOI10.1007/S00209-015-1562-0MaRDI QIDQ269875zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Auffarth

Publication date 6 April 2016

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08618

zbMATH Keywords

abelian subvarietynon-simple abelian varietyNéron-Severi group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic theory of abelian varieties (14K05) Subvarieties of abelian varieties (14K12)

Abstract: To every abelian subvariety of a principally polarized abelian variety $(A,mathcalL)$ we canonically associate a numerical class in the N'eron-Severi group of $A$. We prove that these classes are characterized by their intersection numbers with $mathcalL$; moreover, the cycle class induced by an abelian subvariety in the Chow ring of $A$ modulo algebraic equivalence can be described in terms of its numerical divisor class. Over the field of complex numbers, this correspondence gives way to an explicit description of the (coarse) moduli space that parametrizes non-simple principally polarized abelian varieties with a fixed numerical class.

Review text

The main result of the paper is a numerical characterization of a principally polarized abelian variety \((a, \Theta)\) to obtain an abelian Néron-Severi group of \(A\) comes from abelian subvariety if it satisfies certain explicitly given intersection numbers with the principal polarization. In particular, the simplicity of a principally polarized abelian variety is a numerical property. This generalizes a result of \textit{E. Kani} [Manuscr. Math. 84, No. 2, 199--223 (1994; Zbl 0821.14023)], who proved this in the case of elliptic curves on an abelian surface. The second part of the paper deals with the special case of complex abelian varieties. In this case, the Néron-Severi group of an abelian variety \(A\) can be considered as a certain subgroup of \(H^2(A,\mathbb Z)\) and the theorem mentioned above can be translated into terms of differential forms. The author uses this to give a criterion for the non-simplicity of a complex principally polarized abelian variety in terms of period matrices. Several examples are given.

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• A criterion for an abelian variety to be non-simple
• Automorphisms of abelian varieties and principal polarizations
• Theta divisors whose Gauss map has a fiber of positive dimension
• Non-simple principally polarised abelian varieties
• Smooth quotients of principally polarized abelian varieties
• Non-simple polarised abelian surfaces and genus 3 curves with completely decomposable Jacobians
• Noether-Lefschetz cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties

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