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Divisors on Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties

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The purpose of this paper is to show how generalizations of generic vanishing theorems to a ℚ -divisor setting can be used to study the geometric properties of pluritheta divisors on a principally polarized Abelian variety (PPAV for short).

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Hacon, C.D. Divisors on Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties. Compositio Mathematica 119, 327–335 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001711510155

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