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The refined local lifting problem for cyclic covers of order four

Algebraic Geometry 2023-09-19 v4 Number Theory

Abstract

Suppose ϕ\phi is a Z/4\mathbb{Z}/4-cover of a curve over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic 22, and Φ1\Phi_1 is a \emph{nice} lift of ϕ\phi's Z/2\mathbb{Z}/2-sub-cover to a complete discrete valuation ring RR in characteristic zero. We show that there exist a finite extension RR' of RR, which is determined by Φ1\Phi_1, and a lift Φ\Phi of ϕ\phi to RR' whose Z/2\mathbb{Z}/2-sub-cover isomorphic to Φ1RR\Phi_1 \otimes_R R'. That result gives a non-trivial family of cyclic covers where Sa{\"i}di's refined lifting conjecture holds. In addition, the manuscript exhibits some phenomena that may shed some light on the mysterious moduli space of wildly ramified Galois covers.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2107.01780,
  title  = {The refined local lifting problem for cyclic covers of order four},
  author = {Huy Dang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01780},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

There were some gaps in section 4 of the previous version. The current result is now weaker than a known one but uses a different approach. We may consider replacing this manuscript with another one that yields a stronger result