The p-rank of Artin-Schreier curves
The p-rank of Artin-Schreier curves
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Artin-Schreier 曲线的 p 秩
DOI:
10.1007/bf01181639
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发表时间:
1975
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0.6
通讯作者:
Doré Subrao
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作者:
Doré Subrao
The groundfield k is algebraically closed and of characteristic p ≠ O. The p-rank of an abelian variety A/k is σA if there are σA copies of Z/pZ in the group of points of order p in A(k). The p-rank σX of a curve X/k is the p-rank of its Jacobian. In general the genus of X is ≥ σX. X is ordinary if equality holds.Proposition 3.2 proves that the Artin-Schreier curve Xp with equation (xp−x)(yp−y)=1 is ordinary. As its genus is (p−1)(p−1) and it has at least 2p. p. (p−1) automorphisms, it is an ordinary counter example of Hurwitz's theorem if p>37. Theorem 3.5 is the inductive step in extending this to smaller characteristics. Both are corollaries of Theorem 4.1 which is our principal result: if Y→X is a cyclic covering of degree p ramified at n distinct points, then (σY−1+n)=(σX−1+n)×p. The particular case n=0, the unramiried case, is due to Šafarevič [7].