Reduction Types of Genus-3 Curves in a Special Stratum of their Moduli Space

Abstract: We study a 3-dimensional stratum

m a t h c a l M_{3, V}

of the moduli space

m a t h c a l M_{3}

of curves of genus

3

parameterizing curves

Y

that admit a certain action of

V = C_{2} i m e s C_{2}

. We determine the possible types of the stable reduction of these curves to characteristic different from

2

. We define invariants for

m a t h c a l M_{3, V}

and characterize the occurrence of each of the reduction types in terms of them. We also calculate the

j

-invariant (resp. the Igusa invariants) of the irreducible components of positive genus of the stable reduction of

Y

in terms of the invariants.

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