The size of Fulton's essential set.
We prove that the locus of Jacobians is an irreducible component of the small Schottky locus in any characteristic different from . The proof follows an idea of B. van Geemen in characteristic and relies on a detailed analysis at the boundary of the - expansion of the Schottky-Jung relations. We obtain algebraically such relations using Mumford’s theory of -adic theta functions. We show how the uniformization theory of semiabelian schemes, as developed by D. Mumford, C.-L. Chai and G. Faltings,...
The tame generators problem asked if every invertible polynomial map is tame, i.e. a finite composition of so-called elementary maps. Recently in [8] it was shown that the classical Nagata automorphism in dimension 3 is not tame. The proof is long and very technical. The aim of this paper is to present the main ideas of that proof.