On the conductor of Ciani plane quartics

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In this paper, the authors consider a particular family of non-hyperelliptic genus 3 curves over the local field \(K=\mathbb{Q}_p^{\mathrm{nr}}\), called Ciani quartics, which are curves with geometric automorphism groups containing \((\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^2\). Although general invariants exist to identify the isomorphism classes of genus 3 non-hyperelliptic curves (see for instance [\textit{R. Lercier} et al., LMS J. Comput. Math. 17A, 128--147 (2014; Zbl 1333.14060)]), the authors introduce a much shorted list of invariants fitted to their specific case. They show how to reconstruct from these invariants a model in a specific form (called standard model).\N\NAfter this geometric part, they determine the stable reduction in terms of valuation of the invariants, based on previous results in [\textit{I. Bouw} et al., Assoc. Women Math. Ser. 24, 115--162 (2021; Zbl 1506.14058)].\N\NThe rest of the article is devoted to the computation of the conductor exponent. They restrict to the cases where the automorphism group is of order 4, \(p \ne 2,3\) and the reduction of the curve is potentially good, which already requires an extensive work. As an important step, they get a precise characterization of the curves for which there exists a model over \(K\) with good reduction (and therefore the exponent is \(0\)). The determination of the exponent is achieved through a careful analysis of the extensions needed to reconstruct the various models, their Galois group and the computation of the genus of the inertial reduction (which is the quotient of the special fibre by the automorphisms induced by the Galois action). The proof splits into two distinct cases, depending on the special fibre of the stable model being non-hyperelliptic or hyperelliptic.



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