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Humbert surface

Concept in algebraic geometry

In algebraic geometry, a Humbert surface, studied by Humbert (1899), is a surface in the moduli space of principally polarized abelian surfaces consisting of the surfaces with a symmetric endomorphism of some fixed discriminant.

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