English

Arithmetic Torelli maps for cubic surfaces and threefolds

Algebraic Geometry 2020-02-27 v4

Abstract

It has long been known that to a complex cubic surface or threefold one can canonically associate a principally polarized abelian variety. We give a construction which works for cubics over an arithmetic base. This answers, away from the prime 2, an old question of Deligne and a recent question of Kudla and Rapoport. We further classify the Mumford-Tate groups of the abelian varieties which arise, and give additional arithmetic applications.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2131,
  title  = {Arithmetic Torelli maps for cubic surfaces and threefolds},
  author = {Jeff Achter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2131},
  year   = {2020}
}
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