Normal origamis of Mumford curves (Q993404)

This paper discusses origamis (which are coverings of elliptic curves branched at at most one point) as well as \(p\)-adic origamis (which are coverings of Mumford curves branched at at most one point where the bottom curve has genus \(1\)). A \(p\)-adic origami is called normal if it Galois in the obvious sense. This paper classifies normal \(p\)-adic origamis by showing how they arise from discontinuous subgroups of \(PGL_2(k)\), where \(k\) is a non-archimedean subfield of \(\mathbb{C}_p\). In particular, the quotient graph corresponding to the genus \(1\) curve in the origami has a relatively simple form (see Theorem 5.1). The paper then gives several explicit examples of normal \(p\)-adic origamis with various Galois groups. If a \(p\)-adic origami can be defined over \(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}\), then by base change to \(\mathbb{C}\) it can be viewed as a (standard) origami having essentially the same algebraic data (Galois group, ramification indices, and automorphism group). In many cases, these data are enough to show that a particular \(p\)-adic origami corresponds to a particular standard origami. For small Galois groups, these data are usually enough, and the paper presents several examples of this, as well as some exceptional examples where the correspondence cannot be completely determined.