Abelian varieties are not quotients of low-dimension Jacobians

Abstract

We prove that for any two integers $g\ge 4$ and $g^{\prime }\le 2g-1$, there exist abelian varieties over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ which are not quotients of a Jacobian of dimension $g^{\prime }$. Our method in fact proves that most Abelian varieties satisfy this property, when counting by height relative to a fixed finite map to projective space.

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