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Analogue of Weil representation for abelian schemes

alg-geom 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we construct a projective action of certain arithmetic group on the derived category of coherent sheaves on an abelian scheme AA, which is analogous to Weil representation of the symplectic group. More precisely, the arithmetic group in question is a congruence subgroup in the group of "symplectic" automorphisms of A×A^A\times\hat{A} where A^\hat{A} is the dual abelian scheme. The "projectivity" of this action refers to shifts in the derived category and tensorings with line bundles pulled from the base. In particular, if AA is an abelian scheme over SS equipped with an ample line bundle LL of degree 1 then we construct an action of a central extension of Sp2n(Z)Sp_{2n}(\Bbb Z) by Z×Pic(S)\Bbb Z\times Pic(S) on the derived category of coherent sheaves on AnA^n (the nn-th fibered power of AA over SS). We describe the corresponding central extension explicitly using the the canonical torsion line bundle on SS associated with LL. As a main technical result we prove the existence of a representation of rank dd for a symmetric finite Heisenberg group scheme of odd order d2d^2.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9712021,
  title  = {Analogue of Weil representation for abelian schemes},
  author = {Alexander Polishchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9712021},
  year   = {2007}
}

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39 pages, AMSLatex