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The Oort conjecture for Shimura curves of small unitary rank

Algebraic Geometry 2017-12-12 v1

Abstract

We prove that a Shimura curve in the Siegel modular variety is not generically contained in the open Torelli locus as long as the rank of unitary part in its canonical Higgs bundle satisfies a numerical upper bound. As an application we show that the Coleman-Oort conjecture holds for Shimura curves associated to partial corestriction upon a suitable choice of parameters, which generalizes a construction due to Mumford.

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@article{arxiv.1712.03674,
  title  = {The Oort conjecture for Shimura curves of small unitary rank},
  author = {Ke Chen and Xin Lu and Kang Zuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03674},
  year   = {2017}
}

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