Bilinear cross-effect of a line bundle on an abelian variety Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
For group homomorphisms , this Picard group class is symmetric and additive in both arguments. The Theorem of the Cube says precisely that the third additive difference of vanishes, proving additivity of the cross-effect. The Poincaré line bundle expresses it as , so it depends only on the Néron-Severi group class of . Its associated homomorphism is .
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 2024 iii Paper 126 4 ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For a line bundle on , define the homomorphism associated to a line bundle on an abelian varietyThe Theorem of the square givesso is a homomorphism. Pullback distributes over the tensor product of sheaves, and thereforeIterating the homomorphism law in gives
Suppose . Then is trivial for every . The multiplication-by-n morphism on an abelian variety is surjective, so is trivial and . Thus the Néron-Severi groupis torsion-free.