Characterizing Jacobians via trisecants of the Kummer variety

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.172.485zbMATH Open1215.14031arXivmath/0605625OpenAlexW1968460966MaRDI QIDQ990181FDOQ990181

Authors: Igor Krichever 

Publication date: 6 September 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove Welter's trisecant conjecture: an indecomposable principally polarized abelian variety $X$ is the Jacobian of a curve if and only if there exists a trisecant of its Kummer variety $K(X)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605625

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zbMATH Keywords

Schottky problemJacobian variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42)

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