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Families of curves and alterations

A. Johan De Jong (1997)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

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In this article it is shown that any family of curves can be altered into a semi-stable family. This implies that if S is an excellent scheme of dimension at most 2 and X is a separated integral scheme of finite type over S , then X can be altered into a regular scheme. This result is stronger then the results of [ Smoothness, semi-stability and alterations to appear in Publ. Math. IHES]. In addition we deal with situations where a finite group acts.

Curves with only triple ramification

Stefan Schröer (2003)

Annales de l'Institut Fourier

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We show that the set of smooth curves of genus g ≥ 0 admitting a branched covering X → ℙ 1 with only triple ramification points is of dimension at least max ( 2 g - 3 , g ) . In characteristic two, such curves have tame rational functions and an analog of Belyi’s Theorem applies to them.