On nilpotent automorphism groups of function fields

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2021-0006MaRDI QIDQ2075162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nurdagül Anbar, Burçin Güneş

Publication date 14 February 2022

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08146

zbMATH Keywords

function fieldHurwitz genus formulanilpotent grouppositive characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05) Automorphisms of curves (14H37)

Abstract: We study the automorphisms of a function field of genus $ggeq2$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$. More precisely, we show that the order of a nilpotent subgroup $G$ of its automorphism group is bounded by $16(g-1)$ when G is not a $p$-group. We show that if $|G|=16(g-1)$, then $g-1$ is a power of $2$. Furthermore, we provide an infinite family of function fields attaining the bound.

Review text

\textit{R. Zomorrodian} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 288, 241--255 (1985; Zbl 0565.20029)] proved that a nilpotent subgroup \(G\) of the automorphism group of an algebraic curve defined over the complex numbers has size at most \(16(g-1)\), where \(g\) is the genus of the curve. He also proved that if the equality holds, then \(g-1\) is a power of \(2\). Conversely, if \(g-1\) is a power of \(2\), then there exists an algebraic curve of genus \(g\) that admits an automorphism group of order \(16(g -1)\) which is a nilpotent 2-group. In this paper, the authors partially extend these results to the positive characteristic case (Theorem 1.1). They also provide examples of infinite families of algebraic curves defined over a field of positive characteristic with a nilpotent group of automorphisms attaining the bound \(16(g-1)\) (Section 4). Their approach uses function field theory, and it is completely different from the original approach of Zomorrodian, based on the method of Fuchsian groups.

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