The Torelli map restricted to the hyperelliptic locus

DOI10.1090/BTRAN/64zbMATH Open1474.14051arXiv1911.02084OpenAlexW3153586309MaRDI QIDQ3389397FDOQ3389397

Aaron Landesman

Publication date: 10 May 2021

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $ggeq2$ and let the Torelli map denote the map sending a genus $g$ curve to its principally polarized Jacobian. We show that the restriction of the Torelli map to the hyperelliptic locus is an immersion in characteristic not $2$. In characteristic $2$, we show the Torelli map restricted to the hyperelliptic locus fails to be an immersion because it is generically inseparable; moreover, the induced map on tangent spaces has kernel of dimension $g-2$ at every point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02084

zbMATH Keywords

Torelli map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Algebraic moduli of abelian varieties, classification (14K10)

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