Action of the automorphism group on the Jacobian of Klein's quartic curve

Abstract

Klein's simple group $H$ of order $168$ is the automorphism group of the plane quartic curve $C$, called Klein quartic. By Torelli Theorem, the full automorphism group $G$ of the Jacobian $J=J(C)$ is the group of order $336$, obtained by adding minus identity to $H$. The quotient variety $J/G$ can be alternatively represented as the quotient $\mathbb C^3/\tilde G$ of the complex $3$-space by the complex crystallographic group $\tilde G$, the extension of $G$ by the period lattice of the Klein quartic. Moreover, it turns out that $\tilde G$ is generated by affine complex reflections. According to a conjecture of Bernstein--Schwarzman, a quotient of $\mathbb C^n$ by an irreducible complex crystallographic group generated by reflections is a weighted projective space. The conjecture is known in dimension two and for complexifications of the real crystallographic groups generated by reflections. The case of $\tilde G$ is the first, and in a sense the smallest of the unknown cases. We compute the orbits and the stabilizers of the action of $G$ on $J$ and deduce that $J/G=\mathbf C^3/\tilde G$ is a strongly simply connected variety with the same singularities as the weighted projective space $\mathbb P(1,2,4,7)$.