The Albanese morphism for hyperelliptic varieties

Abstract

We explicitly describe the Albanese morphism of a hyperelliptic variety, i.e., the quotient $X$ of an abelian variety $A$ by a finite group $G$ acting freely and not only by translations, by giving a description of the Albanese variety and the Albanese fibers in terms of $A$ and $G$. In particular, the fibers are themselves abelian or hyperelliptic varieties, and we investigate which can occur in explicit examples. As an application we show that the derived category of $X$ is indecomposable in certain cases.