Prym varieties and applications

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2008.04.005MaRDI QIDQ950258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ahmed Lesfari

Publication date 22 October 2008

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2372

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic curvesintegrable systemsPrym varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06)

Abstract: The classical definition of Prym varieties deals with the unramified covers of curves. The aim of the present paper is to give explicit algebraic descriptions of the Prym varieties associated to ramified double covers of algebraic curves. We make a careful study of the connection with the concept of algebraic completely integrable systems and we apply the methods to some problems of Mathematical Physics.

Review text

The author surveys the theory of the Prym varieties of ramified double coverings of algebraic curves (another source of information on these varieties is the classical book ``Theta functions on Riemann surfaces [\textit{J.~D.\ Fay}, Lect. Notes Math. 352, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1973; Zbl 0281.30013)] and their appearance in the theory of integrable systems. Therewith he discusses only finite-dimensional integrable systems, in particular, the Hénon-Heiles system, the Kowalewski rigid body motion and the Kirchhoff equations of motion of a solid body in an ideal fluid and puts aside soliton equations which are integrable in terms of Prym theta functions corresponding to ramified coverings (the most known of them is the Novikov-Veselov equation) and which were recently used by Krichever for solving the Riemann-Schottky type problems for such Prym varieties.

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