Generic injectivity of the Prym map for double ramified coverings
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Abstract:
We consider the Prym map for double coverings of curves of genus $g$ ramified at $r>0$ points; that is, the map associated with a double ramified covering its Prym variety. The generic Torelli theorem states that the Prym map is generically injective as soon as the dimension of the space of coverings is less than or equal to the dimension of the space of polarized abelian varieties. We prove the generic injectivity of the Prym map in the cases of double coverings of curves with (a) $g=2$, $r=6$, and (b) $g= 5$, $r=2$. In the first case the proof is constructive and can be extended to the range $r\ge \max \{6,\frac 23(g+2) \}$. For (b) we study the fiber along the locus of the intermediate Jacobians of cubic threefolds to conclude the generic injectivity. This completes the work of Marcucci and Pirola, who proved this theorem for all the other cases except for the bielliptic case $g=1$ (solved later by Marcucci and the first author); the case $g=3, r=4$ considered previously by Nagaraj and Ramanan; and by Bardelli, Ciliberto, and Verra, where the degree of the map is 3.
We close with an appendix by Alessandro Verra with an independent result, the rationality of the moduli space of coverings with $g=2,r=6$, whose proof is self-contained.
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Additional Information
- Juan Carlos Naranjo
- Affiliation: Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- MR Author ID: 318430
- ORCID: 0000-0003-1989-4924
- Email: jcnaranjo@ub.edu
- Angela Ortega
- Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- MR Author ID: 726216
- Email: ortega@math.hu-berlin.de
- Alessandro Verra
- Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
- MR Author ID: 197511
- Email: verra@mat.uniroma3.it
- Received by editor(s): August 30, 2017
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 6, 2017
- Published electronically: August 8, 2018
- Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by the Proyecto de Investigación MTM2015-65361-P
- © Copyright 2018 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 371 (2019), 3627-3646
- MSC (2010): Primary 14H40, 14H30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/7459
- MathSciNet review: 3896124