Some special families of hyperelliptic curves

Publication date: 9 September 2012

Abstract: Let

L_{g}^{G}

denote the locus of hyperelliptic curves of genus

g

whose automorphism group contains a subgroup isomorphic to

G

. We study spaces

L_{g}^{G}

for

, or

S L_{2} (3)

. We show that for

, the space

L_{g}^{G}

is a rational variety and find generators of its function field. For

we find a necessary condition in terms of the coefficients, whether or not the curve belongs to

L_{g}^{G}

. Further, we describe algebraically the loci of such curves for

g l e q 12

and show that for all curves in these loci the field of moduli is a field of definition.

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