Casalaina-Martin's singular-locus conjecture for theta divisors

Let AA be a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension g1g\geq 1, and let Θ\Theta be a symmetric irreducible theta divisor. Equivalently, (A,Θ)(A,\Theta) is an indecomposable principally polarized abelian variety. For m2m\geq 2, define

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

Casalaina-Martin's conjecture. If (A,Θ)(A,\Theta) is an indecomposable principally polarized abelian variety, then

dimSingm(Θ)g2m+1\dim \mathrm{Sing}_m(\Theta)\leq g-2m+1

for every m2m\geq 2.

The conjecture holds for theta divisors on Jacobians of smooth projective curves and for Prym theta divisors associated to étale double covers; in particular, it holds when dimA5\dim A\leq 5. The general case remains open.

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

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