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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 CC that admit a cover CE C \to E to a genus 1 curve EE of prime degree nn. These curves CC form an irreducible 2-dimensional subvariety \Ln\L_n of the moduli space \M2\M_2 of genus 2 curves. Here we study the case n=5n=5. This extends earlier work for degree 2 and 3, aimed at illuminating the theory for general nn. We compute a normal form for the curves in the locus \L5\L_5 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 \L5\L_5 as subvarieties of \M2\M_2 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}
}