N\'eron models of Pic^0 via Pic^0

Publication date 22 September 2015

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: We provide a new description of the N'eron model of the Jacobian of a smooth curve

C_{K}

with stable reduction

C_{R}

on a discrete valuation ring

R

with field of fractions

K

. Instead of the regular semistable model, our approach uses the regular twisted model, a twisted curve in the sense of Abramovich and Vistoli whose Picard functor contains a larger separated subgroup than the usual Picard functor of

C_{R}

. In this way, after extracting a suitable

l

th root from the uniformizer of

R

, the pullback of the N'eron model of the Jacobian represents a Picard functor

P i c^{0, l}

of line bundles of degree zero on all irreducible components of a twisted curve. Over

R

, the group scheme

P i c^{0, l}

descends to the N'eron model yielding a new geometric interpretation of its points and new combinatorial interpretations of the connected components of its special fibre. Furthermore, by construction,

P i c^{0, l}

is represented by a universal group scheme

P i c_{g}^{0, l}

of line bundles of degree zero over a smooth compactification

o v e r l i n e M_{g}^{l}

of

M_{g}

where all N'eron models of smoothings of stable curves are cast together after base change.

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