The genera of Galois closure curves for plane quartic curves (Q928422)

Let \(C\) be a projective, smooth quartic plane curve defined over a closed finite field \(k\) of characteristic zero. Let \(\ell\) be a line and \(\pi_P\) the projection of \(C\) to \(\ell\) centered at a point \(P\in C\). Moreover let \(C_P\) be the nonsingular model corresponding to the Galois closure of the extension \(k(C)| k(\ell)\) corresponding to \(\pi_P\); such a curve is called the Galois closure of \(C\) with respect to \(\pi_P\). The subject of this paper is concerning with the computation of the genus \(g_P\) of \(C_P\). This problem was considered by \textit{K. Miura} and \textit{H. Yoshihara} [J. Algebra 226, 283--294 (2000; Zbl 0983.11067)] who showed that \(g_P\in \{3, 6,7,8,9,10\}\). Furthermore they showed that the cases 3,8,9,10 occur but the cases of the existence of quartics with \(g_P=6,7\) remained an open problem for several years. In this paper Watanabe prove that in fact the cases 6 and 7 also occur. There is a relate result which ask for the set of genus \(g_P\) for points \(P\) in a fixed quartic. It is shown that this set is different from \(\{3,6,7,8,9,10\}\). The approach of this paper is based on the Weierstrass point theory of quartic plane curves.