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My aim in these notes is to give an introduction to the theory of Abelian varieties.
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Bost, JB. (1992). Introduction to Compact Riemann Surfaces, Jacobians, and Abelian Varieties. In: Waldschmidt, M., Moussa, P., Luck, JM., Itzykson, C. (eds) From Number Theory to Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02838-4_2
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