Characterizing Jacobians via flexes of the Kummer variety

Abstract: Given an abelian variety

X

and a point

a i n X

we denote by

< a >

the closure of the subgroup of

X

generated by

a

. Let

N = 2^{g} - 1

. We denote by

k a p p a : X o k a p p a (X) s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{N}

the map from

X

to its Kummer variety. We prove that an indecomposable abelian variety

X

is the Jacobian of a curve if and only if there exists a point

a = 2 b i n X s e t m i n u s 0

such that

< a >

is irreducible and

k a p p a (b)

is a flex of

k a p p a (X)

.

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