The Alexander module of a trigonal curve

DOI10.4171/RMI/768MaRDI QIDQ2449571zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex Degtyarev

Publication date 8 May 2014

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2550

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander moduleAlexander polynomialBurau representationfundamental groupmodular grouptrigonal curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Plane and space curves (14H50) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Abstract: We describe the Alexander modules and Alexander polynomials (both over $Q$ and over finite fields $FFp$) of generalized trigonal curves. The rational case is closed completely; in the case of characteristic $p>0$, a few points remain open.

Review text

A generalized trigonal curve \(C\) on the Hirzebruch surface \(\Sigma_d\) is, by definition, a reduced curve \(C\) on \(\Sigma_d\) intersecting at three points (counting multiplicity) with each fiber of the ruling \(\Sigma_d\to\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathbb{C}}\). If \(C\) is disjoint from the unique exceptional section \(E\) of the ruling with self-intersection \(-d\leq 0\), then \(C\) is called a (genuine) trigonal curve on \(\Sigma_d\). Pick a non-singular fiber \(F\). The affine fundamental group \(\pi_C^{\mathrm{afn}}:=\pi_1(\Sigma_d\setminus\{E,C,F\})\) has Zariski-van Kampen presentation through (a smooth part of the ruling into) the ``Artin braid monodromy \(B_3\to \mathrm{Aut}(F_3)\), and especially admits a canonical degree map \(\deg:\pi_C^{\mathrm{afn}}\to\mathbb{Z}\) with \(\mathrm{ker}:=\mathrm{Ker}(\deg)\). In this paper, the structure of the Alexander module \(A_C:=\mathrm{ker}/[\mathrm{ker},\mathrm{ker}]\) (that is a \(\mathbb{Z}[t,t^{-1}]\)-module) is discussed in connection with the associated genus zero subgroup of \(B_3\) via braid monodromy. Theorem 1.2 states that the Alexander polynomials \(\Delta_C(t)\) appearing from those \(A_C\) are classified into the 4 cases: \(\Phi_6(t),\Phi_6(t)^2,\Phi_{10}(t),\Phi_{10}(t)^2\), where \(\Phi_n(t)\) denotes the \(n\)-th cyclotomic polynomial. The mod \(p\) Alexander modules and polynomials are also investigated in details, while ``in the characteristic \(p>0\), a few points remain open. The results obtained apply as well to plane curves with deep singularities.

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