The Prym characterization by the minimal number of conditions

Let (A,Θ)(A,\Theta) be a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension gg, and let Γ\Gamma be a theta-general, uniform collection of points on (A,Θ)(A,\Theta). Suppose that Γ\Gamma imposes generically n<Γn<|\Gamma| conditions on 2Θ2\Theta-linear series, and that the divisor class associated to Γ\Gamma is [2Θ][2\Theta].

The Prym characterization by the minimal number of conditions. Then n2gn\geq 2g, and equality characterizes Prym varieties. This is proposed as a higher Castelnuovo–Schottky problem. The motivation is Welters' characterization of Prym varieties through Abel–Prym curves of maximal genus representing twice the minimal curve class; the conjectural equality case is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Giuseppe Pareschi and Mihnea Popa, “Castelnuovo theory and the geometric Schottky problem”, arXiv:math/0407370 (2007).

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