The generic isogeny decomposition of the Prym Variety of a cyclic branched covering

Abstract

AbstractLet $$f:S'\longrightarrow S$$ f : S ′ ⟶ S be a cyclic branched covering of smooth projective surfaces over $${\mathbb {C}}$$ C whose branch locus $$\Delta \subset S$$ Δ ⊂ S is a smooth ample divisor. Pick a very ample complete linear system $$|{\mathcal {H}}|$$ | H | on S, such that the polarized surface $$(S, |{\mathcal {H}}|)$$ ( S , | H | ) is not a scroll nor has rational hyperplane sections. For the general member $$[C]\in |{\mathcal {H}}|$$ [ C ] ∈ | H | consider the $$\mu _{n}$$ μ n -equivariant isogeny decomposition of the Prym variety $${{\,\mathrm{Prym}\,}}(C'/C)$$ Prym ( C ′ / C ) of the induced covering $$f:C'{:}{=}f^{-1}(C)\longrightarrow C$$ f : C ′ : = f - 1 ( C ) ⟶ C : $$\begin{aligned} {{\,\mathrm{Prym}\,}}(C'/C)\sim \prod _{d|n,\ d\ne 1}{\mathcal {P}}_{d}(C'/C). \end{aligned}$$ Prym ( C ′ / C ) ∼ ∏ d | n , d ≠ 1 P d ( C ′ / C ) . We show that for the very general member $$[C]\in |{\mathcal {H}}|$$ [ C ] ∈ | H | the isogeny component $${\mathcal {P}}_{d}(C'/C)$$ P d ( C ′ / C ) is $$\mu _{d}$$ μ d -simple with $${{\,\mathrm{End}\,}}_{\mu _{d}}({\mathcal {P}}_{d}(C'/C))\cong {\mathbb {Z}}[\zeta _{d}]$$ End μ d ( P d ( C ′ / C ) ) ≅ Z [ ζ d ] . In addition, for the non-ample case we reformulate the result by considering the identity component of the kernel of the map $${\mathcal {P}}_{d}(C'/C)\subset {{\,\mathrm{Jac}\,}}(C')\longrightarrow {{\,\mathrm{Alb}\,}}(S')$$ P d ( C ′ / C ) ⊂ Jac ( C ′ ) ⟶ Alb ( S ′ ) .