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Torelli's theorem for high degree symmetric products of curves

Algebraic Geometry 2021-09-28 v2

Abstract

We show that two smooth projective curves C_1 and C_2 of genus g which have isomorphic symmetric products are isomorphic unless g=2. This extends a theorem of Martens.

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@article{arxiv.math/0208180,
  title  = {Torelli's theorem for high degree symmetric products of curves},
  author = {Najmuddin Fakhruddin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0208180},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

D. Huybrechts has pointed out an error in the proof when g = 2. Also, we were recently informed that the result in the case g > 2 was proved earlier by Ciliberto and Miranda in "On the symmetric products of a curve", Arch. Math. (61), 285-290, 1993