Castelnuovo theory and the geometric Schottky problem
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We prove and conjecture results which show that Castelnuovo theory in projective space has a close analogue for abelian varieties. This is related to the geometric Schottky problem: our main result is that a principally polarized abelian variety satisfies a precise version of the Castelnuovo Lemma if and only if it is a Jacobian. This result has a surprising connection to the Trisecant Conjecture. We also give a genus bound for curves in abelian varieties.
17 pages; final version, to appear in J. Reine Angew. Math.; no significant changes, only some small corrections and additions with respect to the previous version
17 pages; final version, to appear in J. Reine Angew. Math.; no significant changes, only some small corrections and additions with respect to the previous version