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 .
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 yields
since the normalized Poincaré line bundle is trivial on . Pullback and tensor products of sheaves also give . Thus depends only on , the Néron-Severi group.
For a line bundle on , define the homomorphism associated to a line bundle on an abelian variety
The Theorem of the square gives
so is a homomorphism. Pullback distributes over the tensor product of sheaves, and therefore
Iterating 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 group
is torsion-free.
Finally, put . For every ,
which is trivial by the Theorem of the square. Hence