Characterizing Jacobians via trisecants of the Kummer Variety
Abstract
We prove Welter's trisecant conjecture: an indecomposable principally polarized abelian variety X is the Jacobian of a curve if and only if there exists a trisecant of its Kummer variety K(X).
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