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

Authors :
Krämer, Thomas
Weissauer, Rainer
Source :
Math. Z. 281 (2015) 723-745
Publication Year :
2013

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.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Math. Z. 281 (2015) 723-745
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1309.3754
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-015-1505-9