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THE HYPERELLIPTIC THETA MAP AND OSCULATING PROJECTIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2020

MICHELE BOLOGNESI*
Affiliation:
Institut Montpellierain Alexander Grothendieck Université de Montpellier CNRS Case Courrier 051 - Place Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
N. F. VARGAS
Affiliation:
Université de Rennes I CNRS IRMAR - UMR 6625 [email protected]

Abstract

Let C be a hyperelliptic curve of genus $g \geq 3$ . In this paper, we give a new geometric description of the theta map for moduli spaces of rank 2 semistable vector bundles on C with trivial determinant. In order to do this, we describe a fibration of (a birational model of) the moduli space, whose fibers are GIT quotients $(\mathbb {P}^1)^{2g}//\text {PGL(2)}$ . Then, we identify the restriction of the theta map to these GIT quotients with some explicit degree 2 osculating projection. As a corollary of this construction, we obtain a birational inclusion of a fibration in Kummer $(g-1)$ -varieties over $\mathbb {P}^g$ inside the ramification locus of the theta map.

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Michele Bolognesi is member of the research groups GAGC and GNSAGA, whose support is acknowledged.

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