Stable models of plane quartics with hyperelliptic reduction
Year: 2019
Type: preprint
Abstract: Let C/K: F = 0 be a smooth plane quartic over a complete discrete valuation field K. In a previous paper the authors togetehr with Q. Liu give various characterizations of the reduction (i.e. non-hyperelliptic genus 3 curve, hyperelliptic genus 3 curve or bad) of the stable model of C: in terms of the existence of a special plane quartic model and in terms of the valuations of the Dixmier-Ohno invariants of C. The last one gives in particular an easy computable criterion for the reduction type. However, it does not produce a stable model, even in the case of good reduction. In this paper we give an algorithm to obtain (an approximation of) the stable model when the reduction of the latter is hyperelliptic and the characteristic of the residue field is not 2. This is based on a new criterion giving the reduction type in terms of the valuations of the theta constants of C. Some examples of the computation of these models are given.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Geometry and Topology
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4293038469