Tangent bundle of Jacobian of a curve

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In An Introduction to the Theory of Special Divisors on Algebraic Curves, Griffiths states that

Obviously the tangent bundle of the Jacobian is trivial.

Why is this the case?

(Unfortunately, I don't have access to the entire book.)

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The Jacobian of a curve is a group scheme, it acts on itself transitively (by translations), and the tangent bundle is equivariant. In general, there is an equivalence between the category of equivariant vector bundles on a homogeneous space of a group scheme and representations of the stabilizer of a point. In the case of the Jacobian the stabilizer is trivial, hence any its representation is trivial, hence any equivariant vector bundle is trivial. In particular, so is the tangent bundle.