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Vector-valued modular forms and the Gauss map

Algebraic Geometry 2015-12-14 v1

Abstract

We use the gradients of theta functions at odd two-torsion points --- thought of as vector-valued modular forms --- to construct holomorphic differential forms on the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties, and to characterize the locus of decomposable abelian varieties in terms of the Gauss images of two-torsion points.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06370,
  title  = {Vector-valued modular forms and the Gauss map},
  author = {Francesco Dalla Piazza and Alessio Fiorentino and Samuel Grushevsky and Sara Perna and Riccardo Salvati Manni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06370},
  year   = {2015}
}
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