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Abelian varieties are projective algebraic varieties endowed with an Abelian group structure. Over the complex numbers, they can be described as quotients of a vector space by a lattice of full rank. They are analogs in higher dimensions of elliptic curves, and play an important role in algebraic geometry and number theory.

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Are Jacobians principally polarized over non-algebraically closed fields?

How does one define the Torelli map $M_g \to A_g$ of moduli stacks? On geometric points a curve maps to its principally polarized Jacobian. So what I am asking is: if I have a curve $C$ over a non-a …
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When is an Albanese variety principally polarized?

Let (X,x) be a pointed projective variety. Then there exists an abelian variety V which is universal for maps of pointed varieties $(X,x) \to (A,e_A)$, called the albanese variety. When X is a curve, …
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Examples of rational families of abelian varieties.

I'd like to know examples of non-trivial families of abelian varieties over rational bases (e.g. open subschemes of the projective line P^1). One can generate many examples as Jacobians of rational f …
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