Dual graphs of degenerating curves.
We compute, in a unified way, the equations of all hyperelliptic modular curves. The main tool is provided by a class of modular functions introduced by Newman in 1957. The method uses the action of the hyperelliptic involution on the cusps.
Let the field be complete w.r.t. a non-archimedean valuation. Let be a Mumford curve, i.e. the irreducible components of the stable reduction of have genus 0. The abelian etale coverings of are constructed using the analytic uniformization and the theta-functions on . For a local field one rediscovers . Frey’s description of the maximal abelian unramified extension of the field of rational functions of .
1. Motivation. Let J₀(N) denote the Jacobian of the modular curve X₀(N) parametrizing pairs of N-isogenous elliptic curves. The simple factors of J₀(N) have real multiplication, that is to say that the endomorphism ring of a simple factor A contains an order in a totally real number field of degree dim A. We shall sometimes abbreviate "real multiplication" to "RM" and say that A has maximal RM by the totally real field F if A has an action of the full ring of integers of F. We say that a...
We give a criterion, based on the automorphism group, for certain cyclic covers of the projective line to be defined over their field of moduli. An example of a cyclic cover of the complex projective line with field of moduli that can not be defined over is also given.
We continue the examination of the stable reduction and fields of moduli of -Galois covers of the projective line over a complete discrete valuation field of mixed characteristic , where has a cyclic-Sylow subgroup of order . Suppose further that the normalizer of acts on via an involution. Under mild assumptions, if is a three-point -Galois cover defined over , then the th higher ramification groups above for the upper numbering of the (Galois closure of the) extension vanish,...
Let be a number field, its ring of integers, and be an irreducible polynomial. Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem gives infinitely many integral specializations such that is still irreducible. In this paper we study the set of those with reducible. We show that is a finite set under rather weak assumptions. In particular, previous results obtained by diophantine approximation techniques, appear as special cases of some of our results. Our method is different. We use elementary group...