Researcher · UFRO
Rubí E. Rodríguez
Full Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics · Universidad de La Frontera
Biography
Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Universidad de La Frontera and Director of the Research Center Geometry at the Frontier. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1981 and has developed an outstanding academic and scientific career in complex geometry. Her research focuses on Fuchsian groups, Riemann surfaces and abelian varieties, contributing to the development of mathematical research and to the training of new generations of researchers in Chile.
Research Areas
Complex Geometry
Publications
Linear irreducible representations of finite groups over number fields
Cubo Vol. 27 (2025), no. 2, 285–306.
Period matrices for abelian varieties: algorithms and applications
J. Algebra Vol. 683 (2025), 364–388.
Finding a period matrix for a decomposed abelian variety
Manuscripta Math. Vol. 176 (2025), no. 3, Paper No. 39, 14 pp.
A Fruitful Interaction Between Algebra, Geometry, and Topology: Varieties Through the Lens of Group Actions
Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (2024), no. 6, 715–723.
Abelian varieties and Riemann surfaces with generalized quaternion group action
J. Pure Appl. Algebra Vol. 227 (2023), no. 11, Paper No. 107398, 26 pp.
Preface
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. v.
Introduction
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 1–5.
Preliminaries and Basic Results
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 7–38.
Prym Varieties
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 39–78.
Covers of Degree 2 and 3
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 79–94.
Covers of Degree 4
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 95–172.
Some Series of Group Actions
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 173–220.
Some Special Groups and Complete Decomposability
Decomposition of Jacobians by Prym Varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2310. Springer, 2022, pp. 221–246.
On Jacobians with group action and coverings
Math. Z. Vol. 294 (2020), no. 1-2, 209–227.
A remark on the decomposition of the Jacobian variety of Fermat curves of prime degree
Arch. Math. (Basel) Vol. 105 (2015), no. 4, 333–341.
Symmetric group actions on Jacobian varieties
Riemann and Klein surfaces, automorphisms, symmetries and moduli spaces, Contemp. Math., 629, Amer. Math. Soc., 43–57.
Abelian varieties and group actions
Riemann and Klein surfaces, automorphisms, symmetries and moduli spaces, Contemp. Math., 629, Amer. Math. Soc., 299–314.
Polarizations on abelian subvarieties of principally polarized abelian varieties with dihedral group actions
Math. Z. Vol. 276 (2014), no. 1-2, 397–420.
Orbifolds with signature (0; k, kn−1, kn, kn)
Pacific J. Math. Vol. 263 (2013), no. 1, 53–85.
Adapted hyperbolic polygons and symplectic representations for group actions on Riemann surfaces
J. Pure Appl. Algebra Vol. 217 (2013), no. 3, 409–426.
Complex analysis. In the spirit of Lipman Bers. Second edition
Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 245. Springer, New York, 2013. xviii+306 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4419-7322-1.
Jacobians with complex multiplication
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 363 (2011), no. 12, 6159–6175.
Characterizations of Jacobians of curves with automorphisms
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 362 (2010), no. 10, 5373–5394.
Prym and Prym-Tyurin varieties: a group-theoretical construction
In the tradition of Ahlfors-Bers. V, Contemp. Math., 510, Amer. Math. Soc., 2010, 49–60.
Prym-Tyurin varieties via Hecke algebras
J. Reine Angew. Math. Vol. 634 (2009), 209–234.
Prym-Tyurin varieties using self-products of groups
J. Algebra Vol. 322 (2009), no. 4, 1251–1272.
Products of Jacobians as Prym-Tyurin varieties
Geom. Dedicata Vol. 139 (2009), 219–231.
Generalized Humbert curves
Israel J. Math. Vol. 164 (2008), 165–192.
Complex analysis. In the spirit of Lipman Bers
Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 245. Springer, New York, 2007. xiv+220 pp. ISBN: 978-0-387-74714-9.
Jacobians with group actions and rational idempotents
J. Algebra 306 (2006), no. 2, 322–343.
Weyl groups and abelian varieties
J. Group Theory 9 (2006), no. 2, 265–282.
Prym varieties and fourfold covers. II. The dihedral case
The geometry of Riemann surfaces and abelian varieties, Contemp. Math., 397, Amer. Math. Soc., 2006, 177–191.
Real Schottky uniformizations and Jacobians of May surfaces
Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana 20 (2004), no. 3, 627–646.
Dihedral groups acting on Jacobians
Complex manifolds and hyperbolic geometry, Contemp. Math., 311, Amer. Math. Soc., 2002, 41–77.
Families of irreducible principally polarized abelian varieties isomorphic to a product of elliptic curves
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 3, 629–636.
Complex geometry in Chile: panorama and perspectives
Complex geometry of groups (Olmué, 1998), Contemp. Math., 240, Amer. Math. Soc., 1999, 1–6.
Jacobians and representations of S₃
Workshop on Abelian Varieties and Theta Functions, Aportaciones Mat. Investig., 13, Soc. Mat. Mexicana, 1998, 117–140.
On principally polarized abelian varieties and Riemann surfaces associated to prisms and pyramids
Lipa's legacy (New York, 1995), Contemp. Math., 211, Amer. Math. Soc., 1997, 269–284.
Fermat's quartic curve, Klein's curve and the tetrahedron
Extremal Riemann surfaces (San Francisco, CA, 1995), Contemp. Math., 201, Amer. Math. Soc., 1997, 43–62.
Riemann surfaces, abelian varieties and automorphisms
Mat. Contemp. 7 (1994), 25–34.
Riemann surfaces and abelian varieties with an automorphism of prime order
Duke Math. J. 69 (1993), no. 1, 199–217.
On automorphisms of curves and linear series
Topics in algebraic geometry (Guanajuato, 1989), Aportaciones Mat., Soc. Mat. Mexicana, 1992, 101–105.
A pencil in M̃₆ with three points at the boundary
Geom. Dedicata 42 (1992), no. 3, 255–265.
The period matrix of Bring's curve
Pacific J. Math. 154 (1992), no. 1, 179–200.
Uniformization of surfaces of genus two with automorphisms
Math. Ann. 282 (1988), no. 1, 51–67.
On Schottky-type groups with applications to Riemann surfaces with nodes. I, II
Complex Variables Theory Appl. 1 (1982/83), no. 2-3, 279–291, 293–310.
Research Grants
FONDECYT Regular · 1230708
The geometry of the moduli space of Abelian varieties
FONDECYT Regular · 1190991
The geometry of abelian varieties with group action
MEC · Código: MEC80190041
Prym-Tyurin Varieties II (Invitado: Dr. Herbert Lange, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Alemania)
MEC · Código: PAI80160004
Prym-Tyurin Varieties (Invitado: Dr. Herbert Lange, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Alemania)
Anillo · Código: ACT1415
Geometría en la Frontera
MEC · Código: PAI80150022
Deformaciones versales de diferenciales cuadráticas y operads (Invitado: Dr. Alexander Vasiliev, Universidad de Bergen, Noruega)
FONDECYT Regular · 1141099
A Galois theoretical approach to Abelian varieties and its applications II
Outreach and Extension
Mathematics Camp · Scientific Outreach
MateA — Mathematics for Female Students
Graduate Supervision
Current Students
Víctor Valdebenito
Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences · Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Graduated Students
Benjamín Moraga
Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences · Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Thesis: Galois closure of a fivefold covering and decomposition of its Jacobian
Robert Auffarth
Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad de Chile
Thesis: Non-simple principally polarized abelian varieties
Martha Romero
Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad de Chile
Thesis: Monodromy Group of Factored Coverings of Compact Riemann Surfaces
Mariela Carvacho
Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad de Chile
Carolina Becerra
Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad de Chile
Thesis: Decomposition of Riemann Matrices with Group Action
Anita Rojas
Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad de Chile
Thesis: Group Actions on Jacobian Varieties
Gustavo Labbé
Ph.D. · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / Universidad de Chile
Thesis: The Geometry of the Action of Automorphisms on Abelian Varieties