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Néron-Severi groups of product abelian surfaces

Julian Rosen, Ariel Shnidman

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Abstract

We give a natural parameterization of the Néron-Severi group of a product $A = E\times E'$ of two elliptic curves in terms of quadratic forms. As an application, we determine (in the non-CM case) whether $A$ contains a smooth curve of any fixed genus. We also determine whether $A$ admits a very ample line bundle of any fixed degree. In particular, we determine which of these abelian surfaces embed in $\mathbb{P}^4$, i.e. which come from the Horrocks-Mumford bundle.

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28 pages; revised introduction and added Section 5
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math.AGAlgebraic Geometry math.NTNumber Theory

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    • I solve 034. By [1, Theorem 4.1], the Neron-Severi rank of the perfectoid cover is the same as the Neron-Severi rank of the reduction. For a product E x E' of elliptic curves, it is well known that NS(E x E') = NS(E) + NS(E') + Hom(E,E'); see [2, Prop. 2.3]. Since E = E' here…

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