Reduction of divisors and Kowalevski top

Abstract

In the modern theory of the Kowalevski top there are two elliptic curves introduced by Kowalevski and by Reyman and Semenov-Tian-Shansky. The Kowalevski variables of separation and poles of the Baker-Akhiezer function define two classes of linearly equivalent divisors on these elliptic curves. According to the Riemann-Roch theorem each class has a unique reduced representative and we construct such reduced divisors for the Kowalevski top.