On the Alexander invariants of trigonal curves

DOI10.1007/S13163-020-00381-9MaRDI QIDQ2072243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Melih Üçer

Publication date 26 January 2022

Published in Revista Matemática Complutense (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05802, http://hdl.handle.net/11693/77280

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander invariantbraid monodromyBurau representationdessin d'enfantmodular grouptrigonal curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Plane and space curves (14H50) Dessins d'enfants theory (14H57) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: We show that most of the genus-zero subgroups of the braid group $mathbb{B}_3$ (which are roughly the braid monodromy groups of the trigonal curves on the Hirzebruch surfaces) are irrelevant as far as the Alexander invariant is concerned: there is a very restricted class of enquote{primitive} genus-zero subgroups such that these subgroups and their genus-zero intersections determine all the Alexander invariants. Then, we classify the primitive subgroups in a special subclass. This result implies the known classification of the dihedral covers of irreducible trigonal curves.

Review text

A trigonal curve is a curve \(C\subset\Sigma_n\) in a rational geometrically ruled surface such that the ruling restricts to a degree \(3\) map \(C\to\mathbb{P}^1\). The Alexander module of such a curve is the \(\mathbb{Z}[\mathbb{Z}]\)-module \(K/[K,K]\), where \(K\) is the kernel of the canonical epiomorphism \(\deg\colon\pi_1(\Sigma_n\smallsetminus(C\cup E))\twoheadrightarrow\mathbb{Z}\). Following [\textit{A. Degtyarev}, Topology of algebraic curves. An approach via dessins d'enfants. Berlin: de Gruyter (2012; Zbl 1273.14065)] and using the characterization of the braid monodromy groups of trigonal curves (essentially, genus \(0\) subgroups of the modular group) and a description of such groups via dessins d'enfants, the author completes the classification of all Alexander modules of trigonal curves: there are several infinite families and quite a few sporadic classes. The paper under review reports part of these findings, viz.\ all \(p\)-primary components with \(p\ne2\).

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