Algebraic de Rham theorem and Baker-Akhiezer function

Abstract

For the case of algebraic curves (compact Riemann surfaces), it is shown that de Rham cohomology group $H^1_{\mathrm{dR}}(X,\mathbb{C})$ of a genus $g$ of the Riemann surface $X$ has a natural structure of a symplectic vector space. Every choice of a non-special effective divisor $D$ of degree $g$ on $X$ defines a symplectic basis of $H^1_{\mathrm{dR}}(X,\mathbb{C})$ consisting of holomorphic differentials and differentials of the second kind with poles on $D$. This result, which is the algebraic de Rham theorem, is used to describe the tangent space to Picard and Jacobian varieties of $X$ in terms of differentials of the second kind, and to define a natural vector fields on the Jacobian of the curve $X$ that move points of the divisor $D$. In terms of the Lax formalism on algebraic curves, these vector fields correspond to the Dubrovin equations in the theory of integrable systems, and the Baker-Akhierzer function is naturally obtained by the integration along the integral curves.