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Edited 4-Theta embeddings of Jacobians

Number Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

By the Lefschetz embedding theorem, a principally polarized gg-dimensional abelian variety is embedded into projective space by the linear system of 4g4^g half-characteristic theta functions. Suppose we {\em edit} this linear system by dropping all the theta functions vanishing at the origin to order greater than parity requires. We prove that for Jacobians the edited 4Θ4\Theta linear system still defines an embedding into projective space. Moreover, we prove that the projective models of Jacobians arising from the elementary construction of Jacobians recently given by the author are (after passage to linear hulls) copies of the edited 4Θ4\Theta model. Thus, for all compact Riemann surfaces, we tie together algebraic and analytic Jacobians in a new way.

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@article{arxiv.math/0209413,
  title  = {Edited 4-Theta embeddings of Jacobians},
  author = {Greg W. Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0209413},
  year   = {2007}
}
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