This the original TEX file for my article Jacobian Varieties, published as Chapter VII of Arithmetic geometry (Storrs, Conn., 1984), 167–212, Springer, New York, 1986. The table of contents has been restored, some corrections and minor improvements to the exposition have been made, and an index has been added. The numbering is unchanged.

The question about polynomial maps F : C → C, first raised by Keller [1] in 1939 for polynomials over the integers but now also raised for complex polynomials and, as such, known as The Jacobian Conjecture (JC), asks whether a polynomial map F with nonzero constant Jacobian determinant detF (x) need be a polyomorphism: Injective and also surjective with polynomial inverse. The known reductions ...

We introduce two exotic lattice models on a general spatial graph. The first one is matter theory of compact Lifshitz scalar field, while the second certain rank-2 $U(1)$ gauge fractons. Both are defined via discrete Laplacian operator unveil an intriguing correspondence between physical observables these and graph quantities. For instance, ground state degeneracy equals number spanning trees g...

We apply Tate’s conjecture on algebraic cycles to study the Néron-Severi groups of varieties fibered over a curve. This is inspired by the work of Rosen and Silverman, who carry out such an analysis to derive a formula for the rank of the group of sections of an elliptic surface. For a semistable fibered surface, under Tate’s conjecture we derive a formula for the rank of the group of sections ...

The period doubling Cantor sets of strongly dissipative Hénon-like maps with different average Jacobian are not smoothly conjugated. The Jacobian Rigidity Conjecture says that the period doubling Cantor sets of two-dimensional Hénon-like maps with the same average Jacobian are smoothly conjugated. This conjecture is true for average Jacobian zero, e.g. the onedimensional case. The other extreme...

We discuss a technique for trying to find all rational points on curves of the form Y 2 = f3X + f2X + f1X + f0, where the sextic has nonzero discriminant. This is a bielliptic curve of genus 2. When the rank of the Jacobian is 0 or 1, Chabauty’s Theorem may be applied. However, we shall concentrate on the situation when the rank is at least 2. In this case, we shall derive an associated family ...

Cardiac motion estimation is an important diagnostic tool for detecting heart diseases and it has been explored with modalities such as MRI and conventional ultrasound (US) sequences. US cardiac motion estimation still presents challenges because of complex motion patterns and the presence of noise. In this work, we propose a novel approach to estimate cardiac motion using ultrafast ultrasound ...

Polydisperse suspensions consist of small particles which are dispersed in a viscous fluid, and which belong to a finite number N of species that differ in size or density. Spatially one-dimensional kinematic models for the sedimentation of such mixtures are given by systems of N non-linear first-order conservation laws for the vector Φ of the N local solids volume fractions of each species. Th...

Much success in finding rational points on curves has been obtained by using Chabauty’s Theorem, which applies when the genus of a curve is greater than the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the Jacobian. When Chabauty’s Theorem does not directly apply to a curve C, a recent modification has been to cover the rational points on C by those on a covering collection of curves Di, obtained by pullb...