Abstract
In this paper, we study principally polarized abelian varieties X of dimension g with a curve v: C → X such that the class of C is m times the minimal class. In [11], Welters introduced the formalism of complementary pairs to handle this problem in the case m = 2. We generalize the results of Welters and construct families of principally polarized abelian varieties for any m and compute the dimension of the locus of these abelian varieties.