scholarly journals On the Locus of Smooth Plane Curves with a Fixed Automorphism Group

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 3605-3627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eslam Badr ◽  
Francesc Bars
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Plane Curves ◽  
Smooth Plane

scholarly journals Bielliptic smooth plane curves and quadratic points

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Eslam Badr ◽  
Francesc Bars
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Number Field ◽  
Plane Curve ◽  
Plane Curves ◽  
Extra Condition ◽  
Isomorphism Classes ◽  
Smooth Projective Plane ◽  
Quadratic Extensions ◽  
Smooth Plane ◽  
Quartic Curves

Let [Formula: see text] be a smooth plane curve of degree [Formula: see text] defined over a global field [Formula: see text] of characteristic [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] (up to an extra condition on [Formula: see text]). Unless the curve is bielliptic of degree four, we observe that it always admits finitely many quadratic points. We further show that there are only finitely many quadratic extensions [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text] is a number field, in which we may have more points of [Formula: see text] than these over [Formula: see text]. In particular, we have this asymptotic phenomenon valid for Fermat’s and Klein’s equations. Second, we conjecture that there are two infinite sets [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of isomorphism classes of smooth projective plane quartic curves over [Formula: see text] with a prescribed automorphism group, such that all members of [Formula: see text] (respectively [Formula: see text]) are bielliptic and have finitely (respectively infinitely) many quadratic points over a number field [Formula: see text]. We verify the conjecture over [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The analog of the conjecture over global fields with [Formula: see text] is also considered.

scholarly journals Non-singular plane curves with an element of “large” order in its automorphism group

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 399-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eslam Badr ◽  
Francesc Bars
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Moduli Space ◽  
Plane Curves ◽  
Closed Field ◽  
Fixed Degree ◽  
Plane Model ◽  
Zero Characteristic ◽  
Large Order ◽  
Nontrivial Group ◽  
Genus Formula

Let [Formula: see text] be the moduli space of smooth, genus [Formula: see text] curves over an algebraically closed field [Formula: see text] of zero characteristic. Denote by [Formula: see text] the subset of [Formula: see text] of curves [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] (as a finite nontrivial group) is isomorphic to a subgroup of [Formula: see text] and let [Formula: see text] be the subset of curves [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the full automorphism group of [Formula: see text]. Now, for an integer [Formula: see text], let [Formula: see text] be the subset of [Formula: see text] representing smooth, genus [Formula: see text] curves that admit a non-singular plane model of degree [Formula: see text] (in this case, [Formula: see text]) and consider the sets [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In this paper we first determine, for an arbitrary but a fixed degree [Formula: see text], an algorithm to list the possible values [Formula: see text] for which [Formula: see text] is non-empty, where [Formula: see text] denotes the cyclic group of order [Formula: see text]. In particular, we prove that [Formula: see text] should divide one of the integers: [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. Secondly, consider a curve [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] has an element of “very large” order, in the sense that this element is of order [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. Then we investigate the groups [Formula: see text] for which [Formula: see text] and also we determine the locus [Formula: see text] in these situations. Moreover, we work with the same question when [Formula: see text] has an element of “large” order: [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] an integer.

scholarly journals A Class of Pseudo-Real Riemann Surfaces with Diagonal Automorphism Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Eslam Badr
Keyword(s):  
Riemann Surface ◽  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Riemann Surfaces ◽  
Real Plane ◽  
Plane Model ◽  
Field Of Moduli ◽  
Field Of Definition ◽  
Smooth Plane ◽  
Real Riemann Surfaces ◽  
Even Order

A Riemann surface [Formula: see text] having field of moduli ℝ, but not a field of definition, is called pseudo-real. This means that [Formula: see text] has anticonformal automorphisms, but none of them is an involution. A Riemann surface is said to be plane if it can be described by a smooth plane model of some degree d ≥ 4 in [Formula: see text]. We characterize pseudo-real-plane Riemann surfaces [Formula: see text], whose conformal automorphism group Aut+([Formula: see text]) is PGL3(ℂ)-conjugate to a finite non-trivial group that leaves invariant infinitely many points of [Formula: see text]. In particular, we show that such pseudo-real-plane Riemann surfaces exist only if Aut+([Formula: see text]) is cyclic of even order n dividing the degree d. Explicit families of pseudo-real-plane Riemann surfaces are given for any degree d = 2pm with m > 1 odd, p prime and n = d/p.

scholarly journals Lower bounds for Clifford indices in rank three

2010 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. LANGE ◽  
P. E. NEWSTEAD
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Vector Bundles ◽  
Plane Curves ◽  
Projective Curve ◽  
Smooth Projective Curve ◽  
Smooth Plane ◽  
Semistable Vector Bundles

AbstractClifford indices for semistable vector bundles on a smooth projective curve of genus at least 4 were defined in previous papers by the authors. In this paper, we establish lower bounds for the Clifford indices for rank 3 bundles. As a consequence we show that, on smooth plane curves of degree at least 10, there exist non-generated bundles of rank 3 computing one of the Clifford indices.

scholarly journals The kernel of the monodromy of the universal family of degree d smooth plane curves

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Reid Monroe Harris
Keyword(s):  
Plane Curve ◽  
Teichmüller Space ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Plane Curves ◽  
Teichmuller Space ◽  
Infinite Rank ◽  
Universal Family ◽  
Smooth Plane ◽  
Quartic Curves ◽  
Countably Infinite

We consider the parameter space [Formula: see text] of smooth plane curves of degree [Formula: see text]. The universal smooth plane curve of degree [Formula: see text] is a fiber bundle [Formula: see text] with fiber diffeomorphic to a surface [Formula: see text]. This bundle gives rise to a monodromy homomorphism [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the mapping class group of [Formula: see text]. The main result of this paper is that the kernel of [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a free group of countably infinite rank. In the process of proving this theorem, we show that the complement [Formula: see text] of the hyperelliptic locus [Formula: see text] in Teichmüller space [Formula: see text] has the homotopy type of an infinite wedge of spheres. As a corollary, we obtain that the moduli space of plane quartic curves is aspherical. The proofs use results from the Weil–Petersson geometry of Teichmüller space together with results from algebraic geometry.

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