On the Tannaka group attached to the theta divisor of a generic principally polarized abelian variety

Abstract: To any closed subvariety

Y

of a complex abelian variety one can attach a reductive algebraic group

G

which is determined by the decomposition of the convolution powers of

Y

via a certain Tannakian formalism. For a theta divisor

Y

on a principally polarized abelian variety, this group

G

provides a new invariant that naturally endows the moduli space

A_{g}

of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension

g

with a finite constructible stratification. We determine

G

for a generic principally polarized abelian variety, and for

g = 4

we show that the stratification detects the locus of Jacobian varieties inside the moduli space of abelian varieties.

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