Klein coverings of genus 2 curves
Abstract
We investigate the geometry of \'etale coverings of smooth complex genus 2 curves with the monodromy group isomorphic to the Klein four-group. There are two cases, isotropic and non-isotropic depending on the values of the Weil pairing restricted to the group defining the covering. We recall from our previous work \cite{bo} the results concerning the non-isotropic case and fully describe the isotropic case. We show that the necessary information to construct the Klein coverings is encoded in the 6 points on defining the genus 2 curve. The main result of the paper is the fact that, in both cases the Prym map associated to these coverings is injective. Additionally, we provide a concrete description of the closure of the image of the Prym map inside the corresponding moduli space of polarised abelian varieties.
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@article{arxiv.1904.05962,
title = {Klein coverings of genus 2 curves},
author = {Paweł Borówka and Angela Ortega},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05962},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
The proof of injectivity of the Prym map in the non-isotropic case has been corrected. To appear in Trans. AMS