Stabilization indices of potentially Mumford curves

MaRDI QIDQ6387016zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrew Obus, Daniele Turchetti

Publication date 29 December 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let $X$ be a smooth projective curve over a complete discretely valued field $K$. Let $L/K$ be the minimal extension such that $Xime{s}_{K}L$ has a semi-stable model, and write $e(L/K)$ for the ramification index of $L/K$. Let $e(X)$ be the so-called ``stabilization index of $X$, defined by Halle and Nicaise as the lcm of the multiplicities of the ``principal irreducible components of a minimal regular snc-model of $X$. It is known that if $L/K$ is tame, then $e(X)=e(L/K)$. If one drops the tameness assumption, but instead assumes that $X$ has index one and potentially multiplicative reduction, Halle and Nicaise ask if the equality $e(X)=e(L/K)$ still holds. We prove that $e(X)$ divides $e(L/K)$ in this situation, but we give examples, in every residue characteristic, of $X$ with $K$-rational points and potentially multiplicative reduction such that $e(X)eqe(L/K)$.

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