The geometry of the Artin-Schreier-Mumford curves over an algebraically closed field

Abstract: For a power

q

of a prime

p

, the Artin-Schreier-Mumford curve

A S M (q)

of genus

g = (q - 1)^{2}

is the nonsingular model

m a t h c a l X

of the irreducible plane curve with affine equation

(X^{q} + X) (Y^{q} + Y) = c,, c e q 0,

defined over a field

m a t h b b K

of characteristic

p

. The Artin-Schreier-Mumford curves are known from the study of algebraic curves defined over a non-Archimedean valuated field since for

| c | < 1

they are curves with a large solvable automorphism group of order

2 (q - 1) q^{2} = 2 s q r t g (s q r t g + 1)^{2}

, far away from the Hurwitz bound

84 (g - 1)

valid in zero characteristic. In this paper we deal with the case where

m a t h b b K

is an algebraically closed field of characteristic

p

. We prove that the group

A u t (m a t h c a l X)

of all automorphisms of

m a t h c a l X

fixing

m a t h b b K

elementwise has order

2 q^{2} (q - 1)

and it is the semidirect product

Q t i m e s D_{q - 1}

where

Q

is an elementary abelian group of order

q^{2}

and

D_{q - 1}

is a dihedral group of order

2 (q - 1)

. For the special case

q = p

, this result was proven by Valentini and Madan. Furthermore, we show that

A S M (q)

has a nonsingular model

m a t h c a l Y

in the three-dimensional projective space

P G (3, m a t h b b K)

which is neither classical nor Frobenius classical over the finite field

m a t h b b F_{q^{2}}

.

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