Beauville–Debarre infinitesimal Schottky conjecture for Prym and Jacobian theta divisors
Let be a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension , and let be the base locus of the linear system of quartic tangent cones at the origin arising from sections of , where sections vanish to order at least at the origin. For a smooth curve of genus , let be its Jacobian, let be the canonical image of in , and let be the Jacobian locus in the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension . Beauville–Debarre conjecture.
- If , then is, set-theoretically, the canonical image of in .
- If is not in , then is empty.
The conjecture is the infinitesimal version of the preceding proposed Schottky characterization: the base locus of quartic tangent cones should recover the canonical curve for Jacobians and disappear away from the Jacobian locus. Its resolution is not specified in the source.
References
Primary source
E. Izadi, “Second order theta divisors on Pryms”, arXiv:alg-geom/9704020 (1997).
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