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Determinant Bundles for Abelian Schemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

A. Polishchuk
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. E-mail: apolish@math.harvard.edu
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Abstract

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To a symmetric, relatively ample line bundle on an Abelian scheme one can associate a linear combination of the determinant bundle and the relative canonical bundle, which is a torsion element in the Picard group of the base. We improve the bound on the order of this element found by Faltings and Chai. In particular, we obtain an optimal bound when the degree of the line bundle d is odd and the set of residue characteristics of the base does not intersect the set of primes p dividing d, such that p$\equiv -1$ mod(4) and p$\le 2$g$-1$, where g is the relative dimension of the Abelian scheme. Also, we show that in some cases these torsion elements generate the entire torsion subgroup in the Picard group of the corresponding moduli stack.

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Research Article
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