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Using Galois theory, we explicitly construct absolutely simple (principally polarized) Prym varieties that are not isomorphic to jacobians of curves even if we ignore the polarizations.
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Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2009, Vol. 264, pp. 212–223.
In memory of Vasilii Alekseevich Iskovskikh
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Zarhin, Y.G. Absolutely simple prymians of trigonal curves. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 264, 204–215 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543809010210
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