Toric ranks and component groups of modular curves
Abstract
Let be a prime number and let be a congruence subgroup with modular curve and Jacobian . In this paper we give an explicit group-theoretic description of the semistable toric rank and component group of at the finite places of lying over . We first produce a suitable deformation retract of the minimal Berkovich skeleton of 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 , , and , we explicitly determine the pruned skeleta using a set of coset schemes over . This in particular recovers results by Deligne-Rapoport, Edixhoven, Coleman-McMurdy and Tsushima on the semistable reduction type of for . Finally, we determine the geometric Tamagawa number and the prime-to- structure of the component group of over the extension given by Krir's theorem.
Cite
@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