{
  "id": "1202.1517",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-02-07T20:33:31.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-02-07T20:33:31.000Z",
  "title": "Points of order two on theta divisors",
  "authors": [
    "Valeria Ornella Marcucci",
    "Gian Pietro Pirola"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.AG"
  ],
  "abstract": "We give a bound on the number of points of order two on the theta divisor of a principally polarized abelian variety A. When A is the Jacobian of a curve C the result can be applied in estimating the number of effective square roots of a fixed line bundle on C.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-02-07T20:33:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "theta divisor",
      "principally polarized abelian variety",
      "effective square roots",
      "fixed line bundle"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012arXiv1202.1517O"
    }
  }
}