# Reference for the Hodge Bundle

For the purposes of this question, let the Hodge bundle $\lambda$ be the bundle on a fibration of abelian varieties $X\to B$ with fiber over $b\in B$ the space of 1-forms on $X_b$, or the pullback to $B$ along the zero section of the sheaf of relative differentials. The most interesting examples are when $B$ is $M_g$ or $A_g$, and the fibrations are the Jacobian fibration or the universal family of abelian varieties.

Is there a good reference for the properties of this bundle? And for the determinant line bundle on these spaces? Things like self-intersection numbers, cohomology (in particular global sections) are particularly of interest.

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Although this question was asked a long time ago, I would like to advertise my recent paper with V. Maillot on the determinant line bundle (which answers some of the questions asked in the references given in Tony Pantev's answer) : "On the determinant bundles of abelian schemes". Compositio Math. 144 (2008), 495--502. –  Damian Rössler Oct 2 '11 at 10:04

## 1 Answer

The list of references is way too long. Here are some classical texts containing both the setup and calculations:

1) P. Deligne, Le d´eterminant de la cohomologie, Current Trends in Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry,Contemp. Math., no. 67, AMS, Providence, 1987.

2) Gerd Faltings, Ching-Li Chai, Degenerations of abelian varieties, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

3) L. Moret-Bailly, Pinceaux de vari´et´es ab´eliennes, Ast´erisque 129 (1985).

And here are a couple of more recent papers that deal with the self-intersection and cohomology calculations:

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