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The term degenerate is used to describe abelian varieties whose Hodge rings contain exceptional cycles -- Hodge cycles that are not generated by divisor classes. We can see the effect of the exceptional cycles on the structure of an abelian variety through its Mumford-Tate group, Hodge group, and Sato-Tate group. In this article we examine degeneracy through these different but related lenses. We specialize to a family of abelian varieties of Fermat type, namely Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves of the form $y^2=x^m-1$. We prove that the Jacobian of the curve is degenerate whenever $$m$$ is an odd, composite integer. We explore the various forms of degeneracy for several examples, each illustrating different phenomena that can occur.
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Nonvarying, affine and extremal geometry of strata of differentials
Abstract We prove that the nonvarying strata of abelian and quadratic differentials in low genus have trivial tautological rings and are affine varieties. We also prove that strata ofk-differentials of infinite area are affine varieties for allk. Vanishing of homology in degree higher than the complex dimension follows as a consequence for these affine strata. Moreover we prove that the stratification of the Hodge bundle for abelian and quadratic differentials of finite area is extremal in the sense that merging two zeros in each stratum leads to an extremal effective divisor in the boundary. A common feature throughout these results is a relation of divisor classes in strata of differentials as well as its incarnation in Teichmüller dynamics.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2301030
- PAR ID:
- 10511815
- Publisher / Repository:
- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Volume:
- 176
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0305-0041
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 361 to 371
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004123000567
