Session 2. Algebraic Geometry

A uniformization for the moduli space of abelian varieties of dimension six

Gavril Farkas, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
The general principally polarized abelian variety of dimension at most five is known to be a Prym variety. This reduces the study of abelian varieties of small dimension to the beautifully concrete theory of algebraic curves. I will discuss recent progress on finding a structure theorem for principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension six, and the implications this uniformization result has on the geometry of the moduli space \(A_6\).
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