On the geometry of (1,2)-polarized Kummer surfaces

Adrian Clingher, Andreas Malmendier

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Abstract

We discuss several geometric features of a Kummer surface associated with a (1, 2)-polarized abelian surface defined over the field of complex numbers. In particular, we show that any such Kummer surface can be modeled as the double cover of the projective plane branched along six lines, three of which meet a common point. The proof uses certain explicit pencils of plane quartic bielliptic genusthree curves whose associated Prym varieties are naturally (1, 2)-polarized abelian surfaces
Original languageAmerican English
JournalarXiv: Algebraic Geometry
StatePublished - Apr 17 2017

Disciplines

  • Mathematics
  • Geometry and Topology

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