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On the locus of smooth plane curves with a fixed automorphism group

Algebraic Geometry 2016-07-01 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study some aspects of the irreducibility of MgPl(G)~\widetilde{M_g^{Pl}(G)} and its interrelation with the existence of "normal forms", i.e. non-singular plane equations (depending on a set of parameters) such that a specialization of the parameters gives a certain non-singular plane model associated to the elements of MgPl(G)~\widetilde{M_g^{Pl}(G)}. In particular, we introduce the concept of being equation strongly irreducible (ES-Irreducible) for which the locus MgPl(G)~\widetilde{M_g^{Pl}(G)} is represented by a single "normal form". Henn, and Komiya-Kuribayashi, observed that M3Pl(G)~\widetilde{M_3^{Pl}(G)} is ES-Irreducible. In this paper we prove that this phenomena does not occur for any odd d>4d>4. More precisely, let Z/mZ\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z} be the cyclic group of order mm, we prove that MgPl(Z/(d1)Z)~\widetilde{M_g^{Pl}(\mathbb{Z}/(d-1)\mathbb{Z})} is not ES-Irreducible for any odd integer d5d\geq5, and the number of its irreducible components is at least two. Furthermore, we conclude the previous result when d=6d=6 for the locus M10Pl(Z/3Z)~\widetilde{M_{10}^{Pl}(\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z})}. Lastly, we prove the analogy of these statements when KK is any algebraically closed field of positive characteristic pp such that p>(d1)(d2)+1p>(d-1)(d-2)+1.

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@article{arxiv.1510.06186,
  title  = {On the locus of smooth plane curves with a fixed automorphism group},
  author = {Eslam Badr and Francesc Bars},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06186},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper is a recent version of chapter 1 of arXiv:1503.01149