On Prym varieties for the coverings of some singular plane curves

Abstract

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero containing a primitive $n$-th root of unity. Let $C^0_n$ be a singular plane curve of degree $n$ over $k$ admitting an order $n$ automorphism, $n$ nodes as the singularities, and $C_n$ be its normalization. In this paper we study the factors of Prym variety $\mbox{Prym}(\widetilde{C}_n/C_n)$ associated to the double cover $\widetilde{C}_n$ of $C_n$ exactly ramified at the points obtained by the blow-up of the singularities. We provide explicit models of some algebraic curves related to the construction of $\mbox{Prym}(\widetilde{C}_n/C_n)$ as a Prym variety and determine the interesting simple factors other than elliptic curves or hyperelliptic curves with small genus which come up in $J_n$ so that the endomorphism rings contains the totally real field $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_n+\zeta^{-1}_n)$.