Complex torus
In mathematics, a complex torus is a particular kind of complex manifold M whose underlying smooth manifold is a torus in the usual sense (i.e. the cartesian product of some number N circles). Here N must be the even number 2n, where n is the complex dimension of M.
All such complex structures can be obtained as follows: take a lattice Λ in a vector space V isomorphic to Cn considered as real vector space; then the quotient group
is a compact complex manifold. All complex tori, up to isomorphism, are obtained in this way. For n = 1 this is the classical period lattice construction of elliptic curves. For n > 1 Bernhard Riemann found necessary and sufficient conditions for a complex torus to be an algebraic variety; those that are varieties can be embedded into complex projective space, and are the abelian varieties.
The actual projective embeddings are complicated (see equations defining abelian varieties) when n > 1, and are really coextensive with the theory of theta-functions of several complex variables (with fixed modulus). There is nothing as simple as the cubic curve description for n = 1. Computer algebra can handle cases for small n reasonably well. By Chow's theorem, no complex torus other than the abelian varieties can 'fit' into projective space.
Definition
One way to define complex tori[1] is as a compact connected complex Lie group . These are Lie groups where the structure maps are holomorphic maps of complex manifolds. It turns out that all such compact connected Lie groups are commutative, and are isomorphic to a quotient of their Lie algebra whose covering map is the exponential map of a Lie algebra to its associated Lie group. The kernel of this map is a lattice and .
Conversely, given a complex vector space and a lattice of maximal rank, the quotient complex manifold has a complex Lie group structure, and is also compact and connected. This implies the two definitions for complex tori are equivalent.
Period matrix of a complex torus
One way to describe a g-dimensional complex torus[2]: 9 is by using a matrix whose columns correspond to a basis of the lattice expanded out using a basis of . That is, we write
so
We can then write the torus as
If we go in the reverse direction by selecting a matrix , it corresponds to a period matrix if and only if the corresponding matrix constructed by adjoining the complex conjugate matrix to , so
is nonsingular. This guarantees the column vectors of span a lattice in hence must be linearly independent vectors over .
Example
For a two-dimensional complex torus, it has a period matrix of the form
for example, the matrix
forms a period matrix since the associated period matrix has determinant 4.
Normalized period matrix
For any complex torus of dimension it has a period matrix of the form
where is the identity matrix and where . We can get this from taking a change of basis of the vector space giving a block matrix of the form above. The condition for follows from looking at the corresponding -matrix
since this must be a non-singular matrix. This is because if we calculate the determinant of the block matrix, this is simply
which gives the implication.
Example
For example, we can write a normalized period matrix for a 2-dimensional complex torus as
one such example is the normalized period matrix
since the determinant of is nonzero, equal to .
Period matrices of Abelian varieties
To get a period matrix which gives a projective complex manifold, hence an algebraic variety, the period matrix needs to further satisfy the Riemann bilinear relations.[3]
Homomorphisms of complex tori
If we have complex tori and of dimensions then a homomorphism[2]: 11 of complex tori is a function
such that the group structure is preserved. This has a number of consequences, such as every homomorphism induces a map of their covering spaces
which is compatible with their covering maps. Furthermore, because induces a group homomorphism, it must restrict to a morphism of the lattices
In particular, there are injections
and
which are called the analytic and rational representations of the space of homomorphisms. These are useful to determining some information about the endomorphism ring which has rational dimension .
Holomorphic maps of complex tori
The class of homomorphic maps between complex tori have a very simple structure. Of course, every homomorphism induces a holomorphic map, but every holomorphic map is the composition of a special kind of holomorphic map with a homomorphism. For an element we define the translation map
sending Then, if is a holomorphic map between complex tori , there is a unique homomorphism such that
showing the holomorphic maps are not much larger than the set of homomorphisms of complex tori.
Isogenies
One distinct class of homomorphisms of complex tori are called isogenies. These are endomorphisms of complex tori with a non-zero kernel. For example, if we let be an integer, then there is an associated map
sending which has kernel
isomorphic to .
Isomorphic complex tori
There is an isomorphism of complex structures on the real vector space and the set
and isomorphic tori can be given by a change of basis of their lattices, hence a matrix in . This gives the set of isomorphism classes of complex tori of dimension , , as the Double coset space
Note that as a real manifold, this has dimension
this is important when considering the dimensions of moduli of Abelian varieties, which shows there are far more complex tori than Abelian varieties.
Line bundles and automorphic forms
For complex manifolds , in particular complex tori, there is a construction[2]: 571 relating the holomorphic line bundles whose pullback are trivial using the group cohomology of . Fortunately for complex tori, every complex line bundle becomes trivial since .
Factors of automorphy
Starting from the first group cohomology group
we recall how its elements can be represented. Since acts on there is an induced action on all of its sheaves, hence on
The -action can then be represented as a holomorphic map . This map satisfies the cocycle condition if
for every and . The abelian group of 1-cocycles is called the group of factors of automorphy. Note that such functions are also just called factors.
On complex tori
For complex tori, these functions are given by functions
which follow the cocycle condition. These are automorphic functions, more precisely, the automorphic functions used in the transformation laws for theta functions. Also, any such map can be written as
for
which is useful for computing invariants related to the associated line bundle.
Line bundles from factors of automorphy
Given a factor of automorphy we can define a line bundle on as follows: the trivial line bundle has a -action given by
for the factor . Since this action is free and properly discontinuous, the quotient bundle
is a complex manifold. Furthermore, the projection induced from the covering projection . This gives a map
which induces an isomorphism
giving the desired result.
For complex tori
In the case of complex tori, we have hence there is an isomorphism
representing line bundles on complex tori as 1-cocyles in the associated group cohomology. It is typical to write down the group as the lattice defining , hence
contains the isomorphism classes of line bundles on .
First chern class of line bundles on complex tori
From the exponential exact sequence
the connecting morphism
is the first Chern class map, sending an isomorphism class of a line bundle to its associated first Chern class. It turns out there is an isomorphism between and the module of alternating forms on the lattice , . Therefore, can be considered as an alternating -valued 2-form on . If has factor of automorphy then the alternating form can be expressed as
for and .
Example
For a normalized period matrix
expanded using the standard basis of we have the column vectors defining the lattice . Then, any alternating form on is of the form
where a number of compatibility conditions must be satisfied.
Sections of line bundles and theta functions
For a line bundle given by a factor of automorphy , so and , there is an associated sheaf of sections where
with open. Then, evaluated on global sections, this is the set of holomorphic functions such that
which are exactly the theta functions on the plane. Conversely, this process can be done backwards where the automorphic factor in the theta function is in fact the factor of automorphy defining a line bundle on a complex torus.
Hermitian forms and the Appell-Humbert theorem
For the alternating -valued 2-form associated to the line bundle , it can be extended to be -valued. Then, it turns out any -valued alternating form satisfying the following conditions
- for any
is the extension of some first Chern class of a line bundle . Moreover, there is an associated Hermitian form satisfying
for any .
Neron-Severi group
For a complex torus we can define the Neron-Serveri group as the group of Hermitian forms on with
Equivalently, it is the image of the homomorphism
from the first Chern class. We can also identify it with the group of alternating real-valued alternating forms on such that .
Example of a Hermitian form on an elliptic curve
For[4] an elliptic curve given by the lattice where we can find the integral form by looking at a generic alternating matrix and finding the correct compatibility conditions for it to behave as expected. If we use the standard basis of as a real vector space (so ), then we can write out an alternating matrix
and calculate the associated products on the vectors associated to . These are
Then, taking the inner products (with the standard inner product) of these vectors with the vectors we get
so if , then
We can then directly verify , which holds for the matrix above. For a fixed , we will write the integral form as . Then, there is an associated Hermitian form
given by
where
Semi-character pairs for Hermitian forms
For a Hermitian form a semi-character is a map such that
hence the map behaves like a character twisted by the Hermitian form. Note that if is the zero element in , so it corresponds to the trivial line bundle , then the associated semi-characters are the group of characters on . It will turn out this corresponds to the group of degree line bundles on , or equivalently, its dual torus, which can be seen by computing the group of characters whose elements can be factored as maps showing a character is of the form for some fixed dual lattice vector . This gives the isomorphism of the set of characters with a real torus. The set of all pairs of semi-characters and their associated Hermitian form , or semi-character pairs, forms a group where
This group structure comes from applying the previous commutation law for semi-characters to the new semicharacter :
It turns out this group surjects onto and has kernel , giving a short exact sequence
This surjection can be constructed through associating to every semi-character pair a line bundle .
Semi-character pairs and line bundles
For a semi-character pair we can construct a 1-cocycle on as a map
defined as
The cocycle relation
can be easily verified by direct computation. Hence the cocycle determines a line bundle
where the -action on is given by
Note this action can be used to show the sections of the line bundle are given by the theta functions with factor of automorphy . Sometimes, this is called the canonical factor of automorphy for . Note that because every line bundle has an associated Hermitian form , and a semi-character can be constructed using the factor of automorphy for , we get a surjection
Moreover, this is a group homomorphism with a trivial kernel. These facts can all be summarized in the following commutative diagram
where the vertical arrows are isomorphisms, or equality. This diagram is typically called the Appell-Humbert theorem.
Dual complex torus
As mentioned before, a character on the lattice can be expressed as a function
for some fixed dual vector . If we want to put a complex structure on the real torus of all characters, we need to start with a complex vector space which embeds into. It turns out that the complex vector space
of complex antilinear maps, is isomorphic to the real dual vector space , which is part of the factorization for writing down characters. Furthermore, there is an associated lattice
called the dual lattice of . Then, we can form the dual complex torus
which has the special property that that dual of the dual complex torus is the original complex torus. Moreover, from the discussion above, we can identify the dual complex torus with the Picard group of
by sending an anti-linear dual vector to
giving the map
which factors through the dual complex torus. There are other constructions of the dual complex torus using techniques from the theory of Abelian varieties.[1]: 123–125 Essentially, taking a line bundle over a complex torus (or Abelian variety) , there is a closed subset of defined as the points of where their translations are invariant, i.e.
Then, the dual complex torus can be constructed as
presenting it as an isogeny. It can be shown that defining this way satisfied the universal properties of , hence is in fact the dual complex torus (or Abelian variety).
Poincare bundle
From the construction of the dual complex torus, it is suggested there should exist a line bundle over the product of the torus and its dual which can be used to present all isomorphism classes of degree 0 line bundles on . We can encode this behavior with the following two properties
- for any point giving the line bundle
- is a trivial line bundle
where the first is the property discussed above, and the second acts as a normalization property. We can construct using the following hermitian form
and the semi-character
for . Showing this data constructs a line bundle with the desired properties follows from looking at the associated canonical factor of , and observing its behavior at various restrictions.
See also
References
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