Non-hyperelliptic modular curves of genus 3
Abstract
A curve defined over is modular of level if there exists a non-constant morphism from onto defined over for some positive integer . We provide a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence of a modular non-hyperelliptic curve of genus and level such that is -isogenous to a given three dimensional -quotient of . Using this criterion, we present an algorithm to compute explicitly equations for modular non-hyperelliptic curves of genus . Let be a modular curve of level , we say that is new if the corresponding morphism between and factors through the new part of .
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@article{arxiv.2602.17167,
title = {Non-hyperelliptic modular curves of genus 3},
author = {Enrique González-Jiménez and Roger Oyono},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17167},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Typos in the labels of the curves in lines 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42, and 43 of Table 1 have been fixed. The equation in line 41 has also been corrected, with respect to the published version