Connection To Picard Variety
The Albanese variety is dual to the Picard variety (the connected component of zero of the Picard scheme classifying invertible sheaves on V):
For algebraic curves, the Abel–Jacobi theorem implies that the Albanese and Picard varieties are isomorphic.
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