Coarse base change fails for some modular curves
Number Theory
2016-10-26 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
For a congruence level , the formation of the modular curve , i.e., of the coarse moduli space of the level modular stack , is known to commute with arbitrary base change in a wide range of cases. We exhibit infinitely many , for instance, , for which this coarse base change property fails. In our examples failure is witnessed for base change to and for any -fiberwise dense open substack of . These examples fill in several open entries in a table in the book of Katz and Mazur.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.01249,
title = {Coarse base change fails for some modular curves},
author = {Kestutis Cesnavicius},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01249},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
7 pages; final version, to appear in Algebraic Geometry