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Toric ranks and component groups of modular curves

Number Theory 2024-07-09 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let p2,3p\neq{2,3} be a prime number and let ΓSL2(Z)\Gamma \subset \mathrm{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z}) be a congruence subgroup with modular curve XΓ/KX_{\Gamma}/K and Jacobian J(XΓ)J(X_{\Gamma}). In this paper we give an explicit group-theoretic description of the semistable toric rank and component group of J(XΓ)J(X_{\Gamma}) at the finite places of KK lying over pp. We first produce a suitable deformation retract of the minimal Berkovich skeleton of XΓX_{\Gamma} in terms of Hecke-Iwahori double coset spaces. We call this deformation retract the pruned skeleton of the curve. Our description of this skeleton includes a group-theoretic formula for the edge lengths, allowing us to give the component group of the modular curve as the quotient of a lattice using the monodromy pairing. For X0(N)X_{0}(N), X1(N)X_{1}(N), Xsp(N)X_{sp}(N) and Xsp+(N)X_{sp}^{+}(N), we explicitly determine the pruned skeleta using a set of coset schemes over Z\mathbb{Z}. This in particular recovers results by Deligne-Rapoport, Edixhoven, Coleman-McMurdy and Tsushima on the semistable reduction type of X0(pn)X_{0}(p^{n}) for n4n\leq{4}. Finally, we determine the geometric Tamagawa number and the prime-to-22 structure of the component group of X0(N)X_{0}(N) over the extension given by Krir's theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2403.09995,
  title  = {Toric ranks and component groups of modular curves},
  author = {Paul Alexander Helminck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09995},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

53 pages, 3 figures. Moved a figure to arXiv:2306.03879, added details for the calculations of the edge lengths, slightly changed the title