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Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi and @abx for the answers to two related questions that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surfaceCurve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface and A curve in an abelian surface and its image in the Kummer surfaceA curve in an abelian surface and its image in the Kummer surface).

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in|\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)|$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!

Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi and @abx for the answers to two related questions that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface and A curve in an abelian surface and its image in the Kummer surface).

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in|\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)|$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!

Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi and @abx for the answers to two related questions that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface and A curve in an abelian surface and its image in the Kummer surface).

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in|\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)|$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!

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Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi and @abx for the answeranswers to thetwo related questionquestions that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surfaceCurve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface and A curve in an abelian surface and its image in the Kummer surface).

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$$C'\in|\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)|$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!

Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi for the answer to the related question that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface)

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!

Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi and @abx for the answers to two related questions that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface and A curve in an abelian surface and its image in the Kummer surface).

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in|\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)|$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!

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How do I find a smooth curve in $J(C)$ through the 2-torsion points?

Let $X$ be the Jacobian of a genus 2 curve over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$, where n is an even number. Is it possible to find a smooth curve from $|L|$ which is fixed by the involution $x\mapsto -x$ and which passes through the sixteen 2-torsion points? I have the following ideas:

  1. if we take $n$ to be sufficiently large, $L$ will be very ample. Consider $\hat{X}$, the blow up of $X$ at the sixteen 2-torsion points, $b:\hat{X}\longrightarrow X$. Let $E_1,...,E_{16}$ be the exceptional divisors, let $E=\Sigma E_i$. Then the curves I am interested in $|b^*L-E|$. This has no basepoints. So by Bertini there is a open dense subset of the complete linear system consisting of smooth curves. Now the global sections $H^0(b^*L-E)$ breaks up into $+$ and $-$ eigen spaces because the involution acts on it. Curves coming from either the $+$ space or the $-$ space passes through all 16 points and is fixed by the involution. But will they be smooth? (Thanks @Francesco Polizzi for the answer to the related question that I asked from which this idea is entirely based on : Curve through the 16 singular points of a Kummer surface)

  2. The other idea is this. If $X=J(C)$, we can make sure that the involution $i$ on $X$ restricts to the hyperelliptic involution on $C$. We can also make $C$ pass through 0. So $i^*\mathcal{O}(C)=\mathcal{O}(C)$. Now we have $[2]:X\longrightarrow X$, multiplication by 2. Choose $L=\mathcal{O}(nC)$ where $4|n$. Under $[2]$, $\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ pulls back to $L$. So $nC$ maps to some curve $C'\in\mathcal{O}(\frac{n}{4}C)$ which will contain 0? And so $nC$ contains all 2-torsion points?

I am not quite confident about these arguments. But I am required to use these in the course of work I do. I have asked other similar questions to which I have got some very enlightening answers. I would be grateful for help in this direction too!