Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 18 3 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Let be addition, and let be the projections. Consider the line bundleIts restriction to has Picard group class ; the factor is a constant line and has trivial class. Its restriction to is also trivial. Choose a trivialization of the fiber and use it to normalize along the zero sections. The defining universal property of the normalized Poincaré line bundle then identifiesMore explicitly, both sides have the same restrictions to all fibers of the second projection, and both are normalized on ; the Seesaw theorem makes their quotient trivial. Here is the homomorphism associated to a line bundle on an abelian variety, and is the dual abelian variety. Pull back by to obtain the required identityThe choice of fiber trivialization is immaterial to this identity in the Picard group.