The Prym variety of a pair of coverings is defined roughly speaking as the complement of the Prym variety of one morphism in the Prym variety of another morphism. We show that this definition is symmetric and give conditions when such a Prym variety is isogenous to an ordinary Prym variety or to another such Prym variety. Moreover in order to show that these varieties actually occur we compute ...

The Prym map of type (g, n, r) associates to every cyclic covering of degree n of a curve of genus g, ramified at a reduced divisor of degree r, the corresponding Prym variety. We show that the corresponding map of moduli spaces is generically finite in most cases. From this we deduce the dimension of the image of the Prym map.

Abstract We prove an analogue of Kirchhoff’s matrix tree theorem for computing the volume tropical Prym variety double covers metric graphs. interpret formula in terms a semi-canonical decomposition variety, via careful study Abel–Prym map. In particular, we show that map is harmonic, determine its degree at every cell and global $2^{g-1}$ . Along way, use Ihara zeta function to provide new pro...

We investigated maximal Prym varieties on finite fields by attaining their upper bounds on the number of rational points. This concept gave us a motivation for defining a generalized definition of maximal curves i.e. maximal morphisms. By MAGMA, we give some non-trivial examples of maximal morphisms that results in non-trivial examples of maximal Prym varieties.

For an Abel-Prym curve contained in a Prym variety, we determine the cohomological support loci of its twisted ideal sheaves and the dimension of its theta-dual.

Let P be the Prym variety associated with a covering π : Y → X between non-singular irreducible projective curves. If P̃ is a principally polarized Prym-Tyurin variety associated with P , we prove that the induced Abel-Prym morphism ρ̃ : Y → P̃ is birational onto its image for genus gX > 2 and deg π 6= 2. We use such result to prove that the Picard bundle over the Prym variety is simple and moreov...

A new relation between Prym varieties of arbitrary morphisms of algebraic curves and integrable systems is discovered. The action of maximal commutative subalgebras of the formal loop algebra of GLn defined on certain infinite-dimensional Grassmannians is studied. It is proved that every finite-dimensional orbit of the action of traceless elements of these commutative Lie algebras is isomorphic...

We introduce two algebraic completely integrable analogues of the Mumford systems which we call hyperelliptic Prym systems, because every hyperelliptic Prym variety appears as a fiber of their momentum map. As an application we show that the general fiber of the momentum map of the periodic Volterra lattice ȧi = ai(ai−1 − ai+1), i = 1, . . . , n, an+1 = a1, is an affine part of a hyperelliptic ...

Let X1, . . . , Xm denote smooth projective curves of genus gi ≥ 2 over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 and let n denote any integer at least equal to 1 + max i=1 gi. We show that the product JX1 × · · · × JXm of the corresponding Jacobian varieties admits the structure of a Prym-Tyurin variety of exponent n. This exponent is considerably smaller than the exponent of the struc...

We construct a relative Chow-Künneth decomposition for a conic bundle over a surface such that the middle projector gives the Prym variety of the associated double covering of the discriminant of the conic bundle. This gives a refinement (up to an isogeny) of Beauville’s theorem on the relation between the intermediate Jacobian of the conic bundle and the Prym variety of the double covering.