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Defining equations of the universal abelian surfaces with level three structure

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In this paper we write down the defining equations of abelian surface with level three structures explicitly, and we see that their coefficients are given by Siegel modular forms of level three with some characters.

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Gunji, K. Defining equations of the universal abelian surfaces with level three structure. manuscripta math. 119, 61–96 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-005-0606-x

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