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Kummer variety

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In mathematics, the Kummer variety of an abelian variety is its quotient by the map taking any element to its inverse. The Kummer variety of a 2-dimensional abelian variety is called a Kummer surface.

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  • Shimura, Goro (1998), Abelian varieties with complex multiplication and modular functions, Princeton Mathematical Series, vol. 46, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-01656-6, MR 1492449