Projective embeddings of abelian varieties. (English) Zbl 0765.14026

Lange, H.

Jahresber. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. 93, No. 4, 161-174 (1991).

In this report I would like to give a survey on some old and recent results on the geometry not only of Jacobians, but slightly more generally, of all polarized abelian varieties. Before doing this, I would like to give some examples of problems and subjects where these more general abelian varieties turn up.

MSC:

14K05	Algebraic theory of abelian varieties
14H40	Jacobians, Prym varieties
01A55	History of mathematics in the 19th century
14-03	History of algebraic geometry

Keywords:

geometry of Jacobians; polarized abelian varieties