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Wild Stacky Curves and Rings of Mod p Modular Forms

Algebraic Geometry 2025-10-13 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We extend work of Voight and the second author to compute the log canonical ring of a wild stacky curve over a field of characteristic p>0p > 0, which allows us to compute rings of mod pp modular forms of level Γ0(N)\Gamma_{0}(N). Our approach also reveals that in characteristics 22 and 33, there are infinitely many levels NN for which there are weight 22 modular forms of level Γ0(N)\Gamma_{0}(N) that do not lift to characteristic 00.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08821,
  title  = {Wild Stacky Curves and Rings of Mod p Modular Forms},
  author = {Andrew Kobin and David Zureick-Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08821},
  year   = {2025}
}

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47 pages

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