Level Structures on the Weierstrass Family of Cubics

DOI10.1080/00927870601142256MaRDI QIDQ3446629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mira Bernstein, Christopher Tuffley

Publication date 19 June 2007

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512117, http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6zx6s6pk

zbMATH Keywords

branched covers of 3-manifoldslevel structureversal deformation space of a cusp

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Singularities of curves, local rings (14H20) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: Let W -> A^2 be the universal Weierstrass family of cubic curves over C. For each N >= 2, we construct surfaces parametrizing the three standard kinds of level N structures on the smooth fibers of W. We then complete these surfaces to finite covers of A^2. Since W -> A^2 is the versal deformation space of a cusp singularity, these surfaces convey information about the level structure on any family of curves of genus g degenerating to a cuspidal curve. Our goal in this note is to determine for which values of N these surfaces are smooth over (0,0). From a topological perspective, the results determine the homeomorphism type of certain branched covers of S^3 with monodromy in SL_2(Z/N).

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