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Plane non-singular curves with an element of "large" order in its automorphism group

Algebraic Geometry 2016-07-01 v1

Abstract

In this note we determine, for an arbitrary but a fixed degree dd, an algorithm to list the possible values mm for which MgPl(Z/m)M_g^{Pl}(\mathbb{Z}/m) is non-empty where Z/m\mathbb{Z}/m denotes the cyclic group of order mm. In particular, we prove that mm should divide one of the integers: d1d-1, dd, d23d+3d^2-3d+3, (d1)2(d-1)^2, d(d2)d(d-2) or d(d1)d(d-1). Secondly, consider a curve δMgPl\delta\in M_g^{Pl} with g=(d1)(d2)/2g=(d-1)(d-2)/2 such that Aut(δ)Aut(\delta) has an element of "very large" order, in the sense that this element is of order d23d+3d^2-3d+3, (d1)2(d-1)^2, d(d2)d(d-2) or d(d1)d(d-1). Then we investigate the groups GG for which δMgPl(G)~\delta\in\widetilde{M_g^{Pl}(G)} and also we determine the locus MgPl(G)~\widetilde{M_g^{Pl}(G)} in these situations. Moreover, we work with the same question when Aut(δ)Aut(\delta) has an element of "large" order d\ell d, (d1)\ell (d-1) or (d2)\ell(d-2) with 2\ell\geq 2 an integer.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1510.06192,
  title  = {Plane non-singular curves with an element of "large" order in its automorphism group},
  author = {Eslam Badr and Francesc Bars},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06192},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper is a recent version of chapter 2 of arXiv:1503.01149