Debarre's strong Schottky conjecture for theta divisors

Let (A,Θ)(A,\Theta) be an indecomposable principally polarized abelian variety of dimension gg, so that Θ\Theta is irreducible. For m2m\geq 2, define

Singm(Θ)={xΘmultxΘm}.\mathrm{Sing}_m(\Theta)=\{x\in\Theta\mid \mathrm{mult}_x\Theta\geq m\}.

Debarre's strong Schottky conjecture. If (A,Θ)(A,\Theta) is not a hyperelliptic Jacobian or the intermediate Jacobian of a smooth cubic threefold, then

dimSingm(Θ)g2m\dim \mathrm{Sing}_m(\Theta)\leq g-2m

for every m2m\geq 2.

This stronger bound is intended to characterize the boundary cases of the general singular-locus bound and would give a solution to the geometric Riemann–Schottky problem. Its case m=2m=2 is attributed to Debarre and was proposed by Grushevsky; the general conjecture remains open.

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Christian Schnell and Ruijie Yang, “Higher multiplier ideals”, arXiv:2309.16763 (2026).

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