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Emma Previato

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Algebraic construction of the sigma function for general Weierstrass curves

The Weierstrass curve $X$ is a smooth algebraic curve determined by the Weierstrass canonical form, $y^r + A_{1}(x) y^{r-1} + A_{2}(x) y^{r-2} +\cdots + A_{r-1}(x) y + A_{r}(x)=0$, where $r$ is a positive integer, and each $A_j$ is a polynomial in $x$ with a certain degree. It is known that every compact Riemann surface has a Weierstrass curve $X$ which is birational to the surface. The form provides the projection $\varpi_r : X \to {\mathbb{P}}$ as a covering space. Let $R_X := {\mathbb{H}}^0(X, {\mathcal{O}}_X(*\infty))$ and $R_{\mathbb{P}} := {\mathbb{H}}^0({\mathbb{P}}, {\mathcal{O}}_{\mathbb{P}}(*\infty))$. Recently we have the explicit description of the complementary module $R_X^{\mathfrak{c}}$ of $R_{\mathbb{P}}$-module $R_X$, which leads the explicit expressions of the holomorphic one form except $\infty$, ${\mathbb{H}}^0({\mathbb{P}}, {\mathcal{A}}_{\mathbb{P}}(*\infty))$ and the trace operator $p_X$ such that $p_X(P, Q)=δ_{P,Q}$ for $\varpi_r(P)=\varpi_r(Q)$ for $P, Q \in X\setminus\{\infty\}$. In terms of them, we express the fundamental 2-form of the second kind $Ω$ and a connection to the sigma functions for $X$.

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Complementary Modules of Weierstrass Canonical Forms

The Weierstrass curve is a pointed curve $(X,\infty)$ with a numerical semigroup $H_X$, which is a normalization of the curve given by the Weierstrass canonical form, $y^r + A_{1}(x) y^{r-1} + A_{2}(x) y^{r-2} +\dots + A_{r-1}(x) y + A_{r}(x)=0$ where each $A_j$ is a polynomial in $x$ of degree $\leq j s/r$ for certain coprime positive integers $r$ and $s$, $r$<$s$, such that the generators of the Weierstrass non-gap sequence $H_X$ at $\infty$ include $r$ and $s$. The Weierstrass curve has the projection $\varpi_r\colon X \to {\mathbb P}$, $(x,y)\mapsto x$, as a covering space. Let $R_X := {\mathbf H}^0(X, {\mathcal O}_X(*\infty))$ and $R_{\mathbb P} := {\mathbf H}^0({\mathbb P}, {\mathcal O}_{\mathbb P}(*\infty))$ whose affine part is ${\mathbb C}[x]$. In this paper, for every Weierstrass curve $X$, we show the explicit expression of the complementary module $R_X^{\mathfrak c}$ of $R_{\mathbb P}$-module $R_X$ as an extension of the expression of the plane Weierstrass curves by Kunz. The extension naturally leads the explicit expressions of the holomorphic one form except $\infty$, ${\mathbf H}^0({\mathbb P}, {\mathcal A}_{\mathbb P}(*\infty))$ in terms of $R_X$. Since for every compact Riemann surface, we find a Weierstrass curve that is bi-rational to the surface, we also comment that the explicit expression of $R_X^{\mathfrak c}$ naturally leads the algebraic construction of generalized Weierstrass' sigma functions for every compact Riemann surface and is also connected with the data on how the Riemann surface is embedded into the universal Grassmannian manifolds.

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Burchnall-Chaundy polynomials for matrix ODOs and Picard-Vessiot Theory

Burchnall and Chaundy showed that if two ODOs $P$, $Q$ with analytic coefficients commute there exists a polynomial $f(\lambda ,\mu)$ with complex coefficients such that $f(P,Q)=0$, called the BC-polynomial. This polynomial can be computed using the differential resultant for ODOs. In this work we extend this result to matrix ordinary differential operators, MODOs. Matrices have entries in a differential field $K$, whose field of constants $C$ is algebraically closed and of zero characteristic. We restrict to the case of order one operators $P$, with invertible leading coefficient. A new differential elimination tool is defined, the matrix differential resultant. It is used to compute the BC-polynomial $f$ of a pair of commuting MODOs and proved to have constant coefficients. This resultant provides the necessary and sufficient condition for the spectral problem $PY=\lambda Y \ , \ QY=\mu Y$ to have a solution. Techniques from differential algebra and Picard-Vessiot theory allow us to describe explicitly isomorphisms between commutative rings of MODOs $C[P,Q]$ and a finite product of rings of irreducible algebraic curves.

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The sigma function over a family of cyclic trigonal curves with a singular fiber

In this paper we investigate the behavior of the sigma function over the family of cyclic trigonal curves $X_s$ defined by the equation $y^3 =x(x-s)(x-b_1)(x-b_2)$ in the affine $(x,y)$ plane, for $s\in D_\varepsilon:=\{s \in \mathbb{C} | |s|<\varepsilon\}$. We compare the sigma function over the punctured disc $D_\varepsilon^*:=D_\varepsilon\setminus\{0\}$ with the extension over $s=0$ that specializes to the sigma function of the normalization $X_{\hat{0}}$ of the singular curve $X_{s=0}$ by investigating explicitly the behavior of a basis of the first algebraic de Rham cohomology group and its period integrals. We demonstrate, using modular properties, that sigma, unlike the theta function, has a limit. In particular, we obtain the limit of the theta characteristics and an explicit description of the theta divisor translated by the Riemann constant.

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An algebro-geometric model for the shape of supercoiled DNA

This article proposes a model including thermal effects for closed supercoiled DNA. Existing models include an elastic rod. Euler's elastica, ideal elastic rods on a plane, have only two kinds of closed shapes, the circle and a figure-eight, realized as minima of the Euler-Bernoulli energy. Even considering three dimensional effects, this elastica model provides much simpler shapes than observed via Atomic-Force Microscope (AFM), since the minimal points of the energy are expressed by elliptic functions. In this paper, by a generalization of elastica, we obtain shapes determined by data of hyperelliptic curves, which partially reproduce the shapes and properties of the DNA.

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Arithmetic jet spaces

We extend Borger's construction of algebraic jet spaces to allow for an arbitrary prolongation sequence, clarify the relation between Borger's and Buium's jet spaces and compare them in the extended sense. As a result, we strengthen a result of Buium on the relation between Greenberg's transform and the special fiber of jet spaces, including the ramified case.

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Commuting Ordinary Differential Operators and the Dixmier Test

The Burchnall-Chaundy problem is classical in differential algebra, seeking to describe all commutative subalgebras of a ring of ordinary differential operators whose coefficients are functions in a given class. It received less attention when posed in the (first) Weyl algebra, namely for polynomial coefficients, while the classification of commutative subalgebras of the Weyl algebra is in itself an important open problem. Centralizers are maximal-commutative subalgebras, and we review the properties of a basis of the centralizer of an operator $L$ in normal form, following the approach of K.R. Goodearl, with the ultimate goal of obtaining such bases by computational routines. Our first step is to establish the Dixmier test, based on a lemma by J. Dixmier and the choice of a suitable filtration, to give necessary conditions for an operator $M$ to be in the centralizer of $L$. Whenever the centralizer equals the algebra generated by $L$ and $M$, we call $L$, $M$ a Burchnall-Chaundy (BC) pair. A construction of BC pairs is presented for operators of order $4$ in the first Weyl algebra. Moreover, for true rank $r$ pairs, by means of differential subresultants, we effectively compute the fiber of the rank $r$ spectral sheaf over their spectral curve.

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The sigma function for trigonal cyclic curves

A recent generalization of the "Kleinian sigma function" involves the choice of a point $P$ of a Riemann surface $X$, namely a "pointed curve" $(X, P)$. This paper concludes our explicit calculation of the sigma function for curves cyclic trigonal at $P$. We exhibit the Riemann constant for a Weierstrass semigroup at $P$ with minimal set of generators $\{3, 2r+s,2s+r\}$, $r<s$, equivalently, non-symmetric, we construct a basis of $H^1(X, \mathbb{C})$ and a fundamental 2-differential on $X\times X$, we give the order of vanishing for sigma on Wirtinger strata of the Jacobian of $X$, and a solution to the Jacobi inversion problem.

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The Euler top and canonical lifts

In this note, we prove a finiteness result for fibers that are canonical lifts in a given elliptic fibration. The question was motivated by the authors' construction of an arithmetic Euler top, and it highlights an interesting discrepancy between the arithmetic and the classical case: in the former, it is impossible to extend the flows to a compactification of the phase space, viewed as an elliptic fibration over the space of action variables.

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Arithmetic Euler Top

The theory of differential equations has an arithmetic analogue in which derivatives of functions are replaced by Fermat quotients of numbers. Many classical differential equations (Riccati, Weierstrass, Painlevé, etc.) were previously shown to possess arithmetic analogues. The paper introduces an arithmetic analogue of the Euler differential equations for the rigid body.

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The Riemann constant for a non-symmetric Weierstrass semigroup

The zero divisor of the theta function of a compact Riemann surface $X$ of genus $g$ is the canonical theta divisor of Pic${}^{(g-1)}$ up to translation by the Riemann constant $Δ$ for a base point $P$ of $X$. The complement of the Weierstrass gaps at the base point $P$ given as a numerical semigroup plays an important role, which is called the Weierstrass semigroup. It is classically known that the Riemann constant $Δ$ is a half period $\frac{1}{2}Γ_τ$ for the Jacobi variety $\mathcal{J}(X)=\mathbb{C}^g/Γ_τ$ of $X$ if and only if the Weierstrass semigroup at $P$ is symmetric. In this article, we analyze the non-symmetric case. Using a semi-canonical divisor $D_0$, we show a relation between the Riemann constant $Δ$ and a half period $\frac{1}{2}Γ_τ$ of the non-symmetric case. We also identify the semi-canonical divisor $D_0$ for trigonal curves, and remark on an algebraic expression for the Jacobi inversion problem using the relation

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From Euler's elastica to the mKdV hierarchy, through the Faber polynomials

The modified Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy (mKdV) is derived by imposing isometry and isoenergy conditions on a moduli space of plane loops. The conditions are compared to the constraints that define Euler's elastica. Moreover, the conditions are shown to be constraints on the curvature and other invariants of the loops which appear as coefficients of the generating function for the Faber polynomials.

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The al function of a cyclic trigonal curve of genus three

A cyclic trigonal curve of genus three is a $\mathbb{Z}_3$ Galois cover of $\mathbb{P}^1$, therefore can be written as a smooth plane curve with equation $y^3 = f(x) =(x - b_1) (x - b_2) (x - b_3) (x - b_4)$. Following Weierstrass for the hyperelliptic case, we define an ``$\mathrm{al}$'' function for this curve and $\mathrm{al}^{(c)}_r$, $c=0,1,2$, for each one of three particular covers of the Jacobian of the curve, and $r=1,2,3,4$ for a finite branchpoint $(b_r,0)$. This generalization of the Jacobi $\mathrm{sn}$, $\mathrm{cn}$, $\mathrm{dn}$ functions satisfies the relation: $$ \sum_{r=1}^4 \frac{\prod_{c=0}^2\mathrm{al}_r^{(c)}(u)}{f'(b_r)} = 1 $$ which generalizes $\mathrm{sn}^2u + \mathrm{cn}^2u = 1$. We also show that this can be viewed as a special case of the Frobenius theta identity.

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The sigma function for Weierstrass semigroups <3,7,8> and <6,13,14,15,16>

Compact Riemann surfaces and their abelian functions are instrumental to solve integrable equations; more recently the representation theory of the Monster and related modular form have pointed to the relevance of $τ$-functions, which are in turn connected with a specific type of abelian function, the (Kleinian) $σ$-function. This paper proposes a construction of $σ$-functions based on the nature of the Weierstrass semigroup at one point of the Riemann surface as a generalization of the construction of plane affine models of the Riemann surface. Because our definition is algebraic, we are able to consider the properties of the $σ$-functions including their Jacobi inversion formulae, and to give an observation of their properties to those of a Norton basis for replicable functions, in turn relevant to the Monstrous Moonshine.

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Jacobi inversion on strata of the Jacobian of the $C_{rs}$ curve $y^r = f(x)$. II

Previous work by the authors (this journal, \vol{60} (2008), 1009-1044) produced equations that hold on certain loci of the Jacobian of a cyclic $C_{rs}$ curve. A curve of this type generalizes elliptic curves, and the equations in question are given in terms of (Klein's) generalization of Weierstrass' $σ$-function. The key tool is a matrix with entries that are polynomial in the coordinates of the affine plane model of the curve, thus can be expressed in terms of $σ$ and its derivatives. The key geometric loci on the Jacobian of the curve give a stratification of Brill-Noether type. The results are of the type of Riemann-Kempf singularity theorem, the methods are germane to those used by J.D. Fay, who gave vanishing tables for Riemann's $θ$-function and its derivatives. The main objects we use were developed by several contemporary authors, aside from the classical definitions: meromorphic differentials were expressed in terms of the coordinates mainly by V.M. Buchstaber, J.C. Eilbeck, V.Z. Enolski, D.V. Leykin, and Taylor expansions for $σ$ in terms of Schur polynomials also contributed by A. Nakayashiki, in terms of Sato's $τ$-function. Within this framework, following specific results for $σ$-derivatives given by Y. Ônishi, we arrive at our main results, namely statements on the vanishing on given strata of the partial derivatives of $σ$ indexed by Young-diagrams subsets that can be worked out in terms of the Weierstrass semigroup of the curve at its point at infinity. The combinatorial statements hold not only for Jacobians but for the stratification of Sato's infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifold as well.

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Quasi-periodic and periodic solutions of the Toda lattice via the hyperelliptic sigma function

M. Toda in 1967 (\textit{J. Phys. Soc. Japan}, \textbf{22} and \textbf{23}) considered a lattice model with exponential interaction and proved, as suggested by the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiments in the 1950s, that it has exact periodic and soliton solutions. The Toda lattice, as it came to be known, was then extensively studied as one of the completely integrable (differential-difference) non-linear equations which admit exact solutions in terms of theta functions of hyperelliptic curves. In this paper, we extend Toda's original approach to give hyperelliptic solutions of the Toda lattice in terms of hyperelliptic Kleinian (sigma) functions for arbitrary genus. The key identities are given by generalized addition formulae for the hyperelliptic sigma functions (J.C. Eilbeck \textit{et al.}, {\it J. reine angew. Math.} {\bf 619}, 2008). We then show that periodic (in the discrete variable, a standard term in the Toda lattice theory) solutions of the Toda lattice correspond to the zeros of Kiepert-Brioschi's division polynomials, and note these are related to solutions of Poncelet's closure problem. One feature of our solution is that the hyperelliptic curve is related in a non-trivial way to the one previously used.

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Differential algebras with Banach-algebra coefficients I: From C*-algebras to the K-theory of the spectral curve

We present an operator-coefficient version of Sato's infinite-dimensional Grassmann manifold, and tau-function. In this context, the Burchnall-Chaundy ring of commuting differential operators becomes a C*-algebra, to which we apply the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theory, and topological invariants of the spectral ring become readily available. We construct KK classes of the spectral curve of the ring and, motivated by the fact that all isospectral Burchnall-Chaundy rings make up the Jacobian of the curve, we compare the (degree-1) K-homology of the curve with that of its Jacobian. We show how the Burchnall-Chaundy C*-algebra extension of the compact operators provides a family of operator-valued tau-functions.

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Differential algebras with Banach-algebra coefficients II: The operator cross-ratio tau-function and the Schwarzian derivative

Several features of an analytic (infinite-dimensional) Grassmannian of (commensurable) subspaces of a Hilbert space were developed in the context of integrable PDEs (KP hierarchy). We extended some of those features when polarized separable Hilbert spaces are generalized to a class of polarized Hilbert modules, in particular the Baker and tau-functions, which become operator-valued. Following from Part I we produce a pre-determinant structure for a class of tau-functions defined in the setting of the similarity class of projections of a certain Banach *-algebra. This structure is explicitly derived from the transition map of a corresponding principal bundle. The determinant of this map gives a generalized, operator-valued tau-function that takes values in a commutative C*-algebra. We extend to this setting the operator cross-ratio which had been used to produce the scalar-valued tau-function, as well as the associated notion of a Schwarzian derivative along curves inside the space of similarity classes. We link directly this cross-ratio with Fay's trisecant identity for the tau-function (equivalent to the KP hierarchy). By restriction to the image of the Krichever map, we use the Schwarzian to introduce the notion of operator-valued projective structure on a compact Riemann surface: this allows a deformation inside the Grassmannian (as it varies its complex structure). Lastly, we use our identification of the Jacobian of the Riemann surface in terms of extensions of the Burchnall-Chaundy C*-algebra (Part I) to describe the KP hierarchy.

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