Conductor-discriminant inequality for hyperelliptic curves in odd residue characteristic

arXiv1910.02589MaRDI QIDQ6326652FDOQ6326652

Authors: Andrew Obus, Padmavathi Srinivasan 

Publication date: 6 October 2019

Abstract: We prove a conductor-discriminant inequality for all hyperelliptic curves defined over discretely valued fields $K$ with perfect residue field of characteristic not $2$. Specifically, if such a curve is given by $y^2=f(x)$ with $f(x)inmathcal{O}_K[x]$, and if $mathcalX$ is its minimal regular model over $mathcal{O}_K$, then the negative of the Artin conductor of $mathcalX$ (and thus also the number of irreducible components of the special fiber of $mathcalX$) is bounded above by the valuation of $mathrmdisc(f)$. There are no restrictions on genus of the curve or on the ramification of the splitting field of $f$. This generalizes earlier work of Ogg, Saito, Liu, and the second author. The proof relies on using so-called Mac Lane valuations to resolve singularities of arithmetic surfaces, a technique that was recently introduced by Wewers and the first author. In the course of the proof, we introduce and study the discriminant bonus of an algebraic integer $alpha$, which is the logarithmic covolume of the lattice generated by $alpha$ in the ring of integers of $K(alpha)$. We prove a lower bound on the discriminant bonus of $alpha$ in terms of the distance to and degree of a closest lower degree approximation to $alpha$. This bound is crucial to the conductor-discriminant inequality.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

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