Genus 2 curves that admit a degree 5 map to an elliptic curve
Algebraic Geometry
2012-09-04 v1
Abstract
We continue our study of genus 2 curves that admit a cover to a genus 1 curve of prime degree . These curves form an irreducible 2-dimensional subvariety of the moduli space of genus 2 curves. Here we study the case . This extends earlier work for degree 2 and 3, aimed at illuminating the theory for general . We compute a normal form for the curves in the locus and its three distinguished subloci. Further, we compute the equation of the elliptic subcover in all cases, give a birational parametrization of the subloci of as subvarieties of and classify all curves in these loci which have extra automorphisms.
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@article{arxiv.1209.0443,
title = {Genus 2 curves that admit a degree 5 map to an elliptic curve},
author = {K. Magaard and T. Shaska and H. Voelklein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0443},
year = {2012}
}