Kummer Surfaces, Isogenies and Theta Functions
Abstract
The paper discusses geometric and computational aspects associated with -isogenies for principally polarized Abelian surfaces and related Kummer surfaces. We start by reviewing the comprehensive Theta function framework for classifying genus-two curves, their principally polarized Jacobians, as well as for establishing explicit quartic normal forms for associated Kummer surfaces. This framework is then used for practical isogeny computations. A particular focus of the discussion is the -Split isogeny case. We also explore possible extensions of Richelot's -isogenies to higher order cases, with a view towards developing efficient isogeny computation algorithms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.13727,
title = {Kummer Surfaces, Isogenies and Theta Functions},
author = {Adrian Clingher and Andreas Malmendier and Tony Shaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13727},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
38 pages. Updated references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2109.03189