Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
1997-12-21
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
Latex, 18 pages
Scientific paper
Computation of Gauss's arithmetic-geometric mean involves iteration of a simple step, whose algebro-geometric interpretation is the construction of an elliptic curve isogenous to a given one, specifically one whose period is double the original period. A higher genus analogue should involve the explicit construction of a curve whose jacobian is isogenous to the jacobian of a given curve. The doubling of the period matrix means that the kernel of the isogeny should be a lagrangian subgroup of the group of points of order 2 in the jacobian. In genus 2 such a construction was given classically by Humbert and was studied more recently by Bost and Mestre. In this article we give such a construction for general curves of genus 3. We also give a similar but simpler construction for hyperelliptic curves of genus 3. We show that the hyperelliptic construction is a degeneration of the general one, and we prove that the kernel of the induced isogeny on jacobians is a lagrangian subgroup of the points of order 2. We show that for g at least 4 no similar construction exists, and we also reinterpret the genus 2 case in our setup. Our construction of these correspondences uses the bigonal and the trigonal constructions, familiar in the theory of Prym varieties.
Donagi Ron
Livné Ron
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