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IJMMS 26:2 (2001) 107–116 PII. S016117120101153X © Hindawi Publishing Corp. DIMENSIONS OF PRYM VARIETIES AMY E. KSIR (Received 22 January 2001) Abstract. Given a tame Galois branched cover of curves π : X → Y with any finite Galois group G whose representations are rational, we compute the dimension of the (general- ized) Prym variety Prymρ (X) corresponding t oany irreducible representation ρ of G. This formula can be applied t othe study of algebraic integrable systems using Lax pairs, in particular systems associated with Seiberg-Witten theory. However, the formula is much more general and its computation and pr f are entirely algebraic. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 14H40, 14H70, 81T13. 1. Introduction. The most familiar Prym variety arises from a (possibly branched) double cover π : X → Y of curves. In this situation, there is a surjective norm map Nm : Jac (X) → Jac (Y ), and the Prym (another Abelian variety) is a connected compo- nent of its kernel. Another way t othink of this is that the involution σ of the double cover induces an action of Z/2Z on the vector space H 0 (X,ω ), which can then be X decomposed as a representation of Z/2Z. The Jacobian of the base curve Y and the Prym correspond t othe trivial and sign representations, respectively. The Prym vari- ety can be defined as the component containing the identity of (Jac (X)⊗Z ε)σ , where ε denotes the sign representation of Z/2Z. The generalization of this construction that we study in this paper is as follows. Let G be a finite group, and π : X → Y be a tame Galois branched cover, with Galois group G, of sm th projective curv