The geometry of generalized Lamé equation, I

Abstract: In this paper, we prove that the spectral curve $\Gamma_{\mathbf{n}}$ of the generalized Lam\'{e} equation with the Treibich-Verdier potential \begin{equation*} y^{\prime \prime }(z)=\bigg[ \sum_{k=0}^{3}n_{k}(n_{k}+1)\wp(z+\tfrac{% \omega_{k}}{2}|\tau)+B\bigg] y(z),\text{ \ }n_{k}\in \mathbb{Z}{\geq0} \end{equation*} can be embedded into the symmetric space Sym$^{N}E{\tau}$ of the $N$-th copy of the torus $E_{\tau}$, where $N=\sum n_{k}$. This embedding induces an addition map $\sigma_{\mathbf{n}}(\cdot|\tau)$ from $\Gamma_{\mathbf{n}}$ onto $E_{\tau}$. The main result is to prove that the degree of $\sigma {% \mathbf{n}}(\cdot|\tau)$ is equal to% \begin{equation*} \sum{k=0}^{3}n_{k}(n_{k}+1)/2. \end{equation*} This is the first step toward constructing the premodular form associated with this generalized Lam\'{e} equation.