Towards an algorithm for the stable reduction of p-cyclic covers of the projective line on a p-adic field

DOI10.1007/S00208-002-0387-4MaRDI QIDQ1566337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Matignon

Publication date 2 June 2003

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112042

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-cyclic coverstable reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Singularities of curves, local rings (14H20) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: In his Ph. D. thesis, C. Lehr offers an algorithm which gives the stable model for p-cyclic covers of the projective line over a p-adic field under the conditions that the branch locus whose cardinal is m+1 has the so called equidistant geometry and m<p. In this note we give an algorithm also in the equidistant geometry case but without condition on m. In particular we are able to study the reduction at 2 of hyperelliptic curves with equidistant branch locus.

Review text

This paper addresses the problem of finding an algorithm to describe the special fibre of the stable model of a \(p\)-cyclic cover of the projective line, ramified in \(m+1\) points, when everything is defined over a \(p\)-adic field. Here, \(p\)-adic field means a field of unequal characteristic \(p>0\) complete with respect to a discrete valuation. C. Lehr, in his doctoral thesis, gave such an algorithm under a technical hypothesis on the branch locus, and assuming additionally that \(m<p\). This latter condition is very restrictive, e.g. it excludes the study of the reduction of hyperelliptic curves at the prime 2. The present paper keeps the hypothesis on the branch locus but succeeds in eliminating the condition \(m<p\). This is done in the first three sections. The final section gives several interesting examples and explicit computations, including the case of hyperelliptic curves at \(p=2\).

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