An analog to Deuring's criterion for good reduction of elliptic curves

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Authors: Claus-Michael Lehr 

Publication date: 25 September 2004

Abstract: In this paper we study the reduction of $p$-cyclic covers of the $p$-adic line ramified at exactly four points. For $p=2$ these covers are elliptic curves and Deuring has given a criterion for when such a curve has good reduction. Here we consider the case of $p>2$ and completely determine the stable model of the cover. In particular we obtain a finite extension $R^{\prime }$ of $R$ necessary for the stable reduction to be defined. No additional conditions are imposed on the geometry of the branch locus and thus this work can be viewed as a first step towards understanding the situation where branch points coalesce.

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