Cubic function fields with prescribed ramification

This paper describes cubic function fields [Formula: see text] with prescribed ramification, where [Formula: see text] is a rational function field. We give general equations for such extensions, an explicit procedure to obtain a defining equation when the purely cubic closure [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is of genus zero, and a description of the twists of [Formula: see text] up to isomorphism over [Formula: see text]. For cubic function fields of genus at most one, we also describe the twists and isomorphism classes obtained when one allows Möbius transformations on [Formula: see text]. The paper concludes by studying the more general case of covers of elliptic and hyperelliptic curves that are ramified above exactly one point.

Computation of the unipotent Albanese map on elliptic and hyperelliptic curves

We study the unipotent Albanese map appearing in the non-abelian Chabauty method of Minhyong Kim. In particular we explore the explicit computation of the p-adic de Rham period map $$j^{dr}_n$$ j n dr on elliptic and hyperelliptic curves over number fields via their universal unipotent connections $${\mathscr {U}}$$ U . Several algorithms forming part of the computation of finite level versions $$j^{dr}_n$$ j n dr of the unipotent Albanese maps are presented. The computation of the logarithmic extension of $${\mathscr {U}}$$ U in general requires a description in terms of an open covering, and can be regarded as a simple example of computational descent theory. We also demonstrate a constructive version of a lemma of Hadian used in the computation of the Hodge filtration on $${\mathscr {U}}$$ U over affine elliptic and odd hyperelliptic curves. We use these algorithms to present some new examples describing the co-ordinates of some of these period maps. This description will be given in terms iterated p-adic Coleman integrals. We also consider the computation of the co-ordinates if we replace the rational basepoint with a tangential basepoint, and present some new examples here as well.