Invariants recovering the reduction type of a hyperelliptic curve
Abstract
Tate's algorithm tells us that for an elliptic curve over a local field of residue characteristic , has potentially good reduction if and only if . It also tells us that when is semistable the dual graph of the special fibre of the minimal regular model of can be recovered from . We generalise these results to hyperelliptic curves of genus over local fields of odd residue characteristic by defining a list of absolute invariants that determine the potential stable model of a genus hyperelliptic curve . They also determine the dual graph of the special fibre of the minimal regular model of if is semistable. This list depends only on the genus of , and the absolute invariants can be written in terms of the coefficients of a Weierstrass equation for . We explicitly describe the method by which the valuations of the invariants recover the dual graphs. Additionally, we show by way of a counterexample that if , there is no list of invariants whose valuations determine the dual graph of the special fibre of the minimal regular model of a genus hyperelliptic curve over a local field of odd residue characteristic when is not assumed to be semistable.
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@article{arxiv.2502.08487,
title = {Invariants recovering the reduction type of a hyperelliptic curve},
author = {Lilybelle Cowland Kellock and Elisa Lorenzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08487},
year = {2025}
}
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40 pages