Hyperelliptic curves among cyclic coverings of the projective line. I (Q387607)

This paper under review gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a \(d\)-cyclic cover of \(\mathbb{P}^1({\mathbb C})\) with \(3\) branch points being hyperelliptic or elliptic. More precisely, a smooth curve \(V\) is a \(d\)--cyclic cover of \(\mathbb{P}^1({\mathbb C})\) with \(3\) branch points if and only if \(d\geq3\) and \(V\) has a (possibly singular) plane model \(y^d=x(x-1)\) or \(y^d=x(x-1)^{\frac{d-2}{2}}\) (\(d\) is even and \(d\geq6\)).