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Autoduality holds for a degenerating abelian variety

Algebraic Geometry 2017-08-01 v2

Abstract

We prove that certain degenerate abelian varieties, the compactified Jacobian of a nodal curve and a stable quasiabelian variety, satisfy autoduality. We establish this result by proving a comparison theorem that relates the associated family of Picard schemes to the N\'eron model, a result of independent interest. In our proof, a key fact is that the total space of a suitable family of compactified Jacobians has rational singularities.

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@article{arxiv.1507.07963,
  title  = {Autoduality holds for a degenerating abelian variety},
  author = {Jesse Leo Kass},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07963},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

To appear in Research in Mathematical Sciences. Material reorganized and typos corrected