Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 18 3 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For , translations preserve its line bundle class, so . Equivalently, the kernel of is the Identity component of the Picard group. Applying the preceding Poincaré line bundle formula to yieldssince the normalized Poincaré line bundle is trivial on . Pullback and tensor products of sheaves also give . Thus depends only on , the Néron-Severi group.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 126 3 ii Solution 2026-09-28
For a line bundle on , define the homomorphism associated to a line bundle on an abelian varietyThe translation identity from part (i) givesso is a homomorphism.
Suppose lies in its image. Thenwhich is trivial by the same translation identity. Hence ; the image of every lies in the Identity component of the Picard group .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 126 4 iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Part iii already proves injectivity. Pullback along sends translation-invariant line bundles to translation-invariant line bundles, so it definesClearly .
For , put andThen is trivial on both coordinate axes. Since and the two correcting factors lie in , translation by leaves invariant. Hence every restriction is trivial. The Seesaw theorem and triviality on imply . Thus , so