Prym varieties associated with \(n\)-cyclic coverings of a hyperelliptic curve. (Variétés de Prym associées aux revêtements \(n\)-cycliques d’une courbe hyperelliptique.) (French) Zbl 1049.14018

Ortega, Angela

Math. Z. 245, No. 1, 97-103 (2003).

Given a smooth, projective, hyperelliptic curve

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\(H\) of genus \(g\), for every \(\eta\) of order \(n\) in the Jacobian \(JH\), let \(f : C \rightarrow H\) be the \(n\)-cyclic covering associated to \(\eta\). The Prym variety

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\(P:= \text{Prym} (C/M)\) is given by the zero component of \(\operatorname{Ker} N_f\), \(N_f : JC \rightarrow JH\). \(P\) is an abelian subvariety of \(JC\); the main result in the paper shows that \(P\) is isomorphic to a product \(JC_0\times JC_1\) of jacobians of curves. The curves \(JC_0, JC_1\) can be found via a hyperelliptic structure \(C\rightarrow {\mathbb P}^1\) obtained from the one on \(H\); since \(\text{Gal} (C/{\mathbb P}^1) \cong D_n = \langle j, \sigma\rangle\), where \(j^2=\sigma^n=1\), there are involutions \(j_{\nu}=j\sigma ^\nu\), \(\nu = 0,\dots,n-1\) which define double ramified coverings

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\(f_\nu : C \rightarrow C_\nu := C/\langle j_\nu \rangle\). The jacobians \(JC_\nu\) are included in \(P\) and it turns out that \(P \cong JC_0\times JC_1\).

Reviewer: Alessandro Gimigliano (Bologna)

MSC:

14H40	Jacobians, Prym varieties
14H45	Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus

Keywords:

Jacobian; Prym variety; hyperelliptic curves