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Is there a "crash-course" book on Abelian varieties (e.g., an introduction for physicists)?

Hello, In our (rather applied) theoretical physics research, we have encountered an important class of problems, which seem to require an understanding of Abelian functions (unfortunately, this ...
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Birational Automorphisms and infinite divisibility

Suppose $X$ is some algebraic variety. It can be over $\mathbb{C}$, but it doesn't have to (but char $0$ preferred). Is it possible that the additive group $\mathbb{Q}$ acts on it birationally, ...