Division by 2 on odd degree hyperelliptic curves and their jacobians
Abstract
Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from 2, a positive integer, a degree polynomial with coefficients in and without multiple roots, the corresponding genus hyperelliptic curve over K, and the jacobian of . We identify with the image of its canonical embedding into (the infinite point of goes to the identity element of ). It is well known that for each there are exactly elements such that . M. Stoll constructed an algorithm that provides Mumford representations of all such , in terms of the Mumford representation of . The aim of this paper is to give explicit formulas for Mumford representations of all such , when is given by in terms of coordinates . We also prove that if then does not contain torsion points with order between and .
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@article{arxiv.1809.03061,
title = {Division by 2 on odd degree hyperelliptic curves and their jacobians},
author = {Yuri G. Zarhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03061},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
18 pages. The paper overlaps with arXiv:1606.05252 and arXiv:1807.07008