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[[Image:family_bitangents.png|200px|thumb|a family of bitangents to canonical curves of genus 3 degenerate to a line connecting images of two Weierstrass points of a canonical image of a hyperelliptic curve of genus 3]] | [[Image:family_bitangents.png|200px|thumb|a family of bitangents to canonical curves of genus 3 degenerate to a line connecting images of two Weierstrass points of a canonical image of a hyperelliptic curve of genus 3]] | ||
* In genus 2, there are 6 Weierstrass points. Each of them is an odd theta characteristic. There are <math>\mbox{binom}(6,3)=20</math> three-tuples of distinct Weierstrass points, and hence there are <math>20/2=10</math> odd theta characteristics, as expected. It is interesting to understand the geometrical meaning of pairs of Weierstrass points: if <math>p_1,p_2</math> are two distinct Weierstrass points on <math>C</math> then <math>p_1+p_2-H_C</math> is a 2-torsion point on the [[Jacobian]] of <math>C</math>, in this way we can express all the <math>2^4-1=15=\mbox{binom}(6,2)</math> non-trivial 2-torsion points on this Jacobian. Moreover, if <math>p_3+p_4-H_C</math> is another (and different) 2-torsion point, then the <math>Weil pairing</math> between the two 2-torsion points is given by <math>\{p_1,p_2\}\cap\{p_3,p_4\}</math>. | * In genus 2, there are 6 Weierstrass points. Each of them is an odd theta characteristic. There are <math>\mbox{binom}(6,3)=20</math> three-tuples of distinct Weierstrass points, and hence there are <math>20/2=10</math> odd theta characteristics, as expected. It is interesting to understand the geometrical meaning of pairs of Weierstrass points: if <math>p_1,p_2</math> are two distinct Weierstrass points on <math>C</math> then <math>p_1+p_2-H_C</math> is a 2-torsion point on the [[Jacobian]] of <math>C</math>, in this way we can express all the <math>2^4-1=15=\mbox{binom}(6,2)</math> non-trivial 2-torsion points on this Jacobian. Moreover, if <math>p_3+p_4-H_C</math> is another (and different) 2-torsion point, then the <math>Weil pairing</math> between the two 2-torsion points is given by <math>\{p_1,p_2\}\cap\{p_3,p_4\}</math>. | ||
* In genus 3, there are 8 Weierstrass points. The even theta characteristics are given by the empty set and by partitions of these 8 points into two distinct sets - hence we get <math>1+\mbox{binom}(8,4)/2=36</math> even theta characteristics. the odd theta characteristics are given by the <math>\mbox{binom}(8,2)=28</math> pairs of Weierstrass points. The canonical map in this case maps the curve <math>C</math> to a double cover of a plane conic. Consider a family of canonically embedded genus 3 curves with parameter <math>t</math> given by <math>\mbox{Nulls}(Q^2+tF)</math>, where we identify the double conic <math>Q^2</math> with the canonical image of <math>C</math> | * In genus 3, there are 8 Weierstrass points. The even theta characteristics are given by the empty set and by partitions of these 8 points into two distinct sets - hence we get <math>1+\mbox{binom}(8,4)/2=36</math> even theta characteristics. the odd theta characteristics are given by the <math>\mbox{binom}(8,2)=28</math> pairs of Weierstrass points. The canonical map in this case maps the curve <math>C</math> to a double cover of a plane conic. Consider a family of canonically embedded genus 3 curves with parameter <math>t</math> given by <math>\mbox{Nulls}(Q^2+tF)</math>, where we identify the double conic <math>Q^2</math> with the canonical image of <math>C</math> and where the Weierstrass points are the intersection points of <math>\mbox{Nulls}(Q)\cap \mbox{Nulls}(F)</math>. Then it can be shown that the "limit" of the bitangents of the curves in the family (which are the odd theta characteritics) are the lines connecting pairs of images of Weierstrass points on <math>C</math>. | ||
== Moduli of hyperelliptic curves == | == Moduli of hyperelliptic curves == |
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In algebraic geometry a hyperelliptic curve is an algebraic curve of genus greater then 1, which admits a double cover . If such a double cover exists it is unique, and it is called the "hyperelliptic double cover". The involution induced on the curve Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} by interchanging between the two "sheets" of the double cover is called the "hyperelliptic involution". The divisor class of a fiber of the hyperelliptic double cover is called the "hyperelliptic class".
Weierstrass points
By the Riemann-Hurwitz formula the hyperelliptic double cover has exactly Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g+2} branch points. For each branch point Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} we have Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle h^0(2p)= 2} . Hence these points are all Weierstrass points. Moreover, we see that for each of these points Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle h^0((2(k+1))p)\geq h^0(2kp)+1} , and thus the Weierstrass weight of each of these points is at least Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sum_{k=1}^g (2k-k)=g(g-1)/2} . However, by the second part of the Weierstrass gap theorem, the total weight of Weierstrass points is , and thus the Weierstrass points of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} are exactly the branch points of the hyperelliptic double cover.
Given a set Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B} of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g+2} distinct points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^1} , there is a unique double cover of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C\to\mathbb{P}^1} whose branch divisor is the set Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B} . From an algebro-geometric point of view one can construct the curve by taking the Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Proj} of the sheaf whose sections Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g} over an open subset Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle U\subset\mathbb{P}^1} satisfy Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g^2\in O_U(B)} .
The plane model
If the Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g+2} branch points of a hyperelliptic double cover Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C\to\mathbb{P}^1} are then C is birational to the plane curve Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mbox{Nulls}(y^2=(x-w_1)(x-w_2)\cdots(x-w_{2g+1})(x-w_{2g+2}))\subset\mathbb{A}^2} , where if one of the branch points is infinity, we omit the corresponding term in the product. The closure of this curve in the projective plane has a singularity on the line Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^2\setminus\mathbb{A}^2} .
Curves of genus 2
If the genus of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} is 2, then the degree of the canonical class Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle K_C} is 2, and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle h^0(K_C)=2} . Hence the canonical map is a double cover. The Jacobian variety of such a curve is an Abelian surface.
The canonical system
If Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p} is a rational point on a hyperelliptic curve, then for all Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k} we have . Hence we must have Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle h^0((2g-2)p)\geq g} . However, by Riemann-Roch this implies that the divisor Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (2g-2)p} is rationally equivalent to the canonical class Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle K_C} . Hence the canonical class of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} is Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g-1} times the hyperelliptic class of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} , and the canonical image of is a rational curve of degree Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g-1} .
Level 2 structure
If Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S} is a set of at most Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g+1} Weierstrass points of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} such that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \# S-(g+1)} is even, then Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle D_S:=[S]+\frac{\#S-(g+1)}{2}H_C} is a theta characteristic of ; i.e. Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2D_S\sim K_C} in the Picard group of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} . Moreover, it can be shown that Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle h^0(D_S)=1+\frac{\#S-(g+1)}{2}} , and if there are two such sets Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S\neq S'} , then either Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle D_S\neq D_S'} or Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S'\cup S} is the set of all Weirstrass points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} .
If we count each set Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle S} together with its complementary set in the set of Weierstrass points (and then divide by 2) then the combinatorial description above tells us that any partition of the set of Weierstrass points into two sets such that the difference between the cardinalities is divisible by 4 induces a theta characteristic. We count Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\sum_{4|2g+2-2k}\mbox{binom}(2g+2,k)} . This combinatorial sum is Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2^{2g}} which is the number of theta characteristics on a curve of genus Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g} . Hence our description exhausts all the theta characteristics.
- In genus 2, there are 6 Weierstrass points. Each of them is an odd theta characteristic. There are Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mbox{binom}(6,3)=20} three-tuples of distinct Weierstrass points, and hence there are Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 20/2=10} odd theta characteristics, as expected. It is interesting to understand the geometrical meaning of pairs of Weierstrass points: if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p_1,p_2} are two distinct Weierstrass points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} then is a 2-torsion point on the Jacobian of , in this way we can express all the non-trivial 2-torsion points on this Jacobian. Moreover, if Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p_3+p_4-H_C} is another (and different) 2-torsion point, then the Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Weil pairing} between the two 2-torsion points is given by Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \{p_1,p_2\}\cap\{p_3,p_4\}} .
- In genus 3, there are 8 Weierstrass points. The even theta characteristics are given by the empty set and by partitions of these 8 points into two distinct sets - hence we get Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 1+\mbox{binom}(8,4)/2=36} even theta characteristics. the odd theta characteristics are given by the Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mbox{binom}(8,2)=28} pairs of Weierstrass points. The canonical map in this case maps the curve Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} to a double cover of a plane conic. Consider a family of canonically embedded genus 3 curves with parameter Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle t} given by Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mbox{Nulls}(Q^2+tF)} , where we identify the double conic Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Q^2} with the canonical image of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} and where the Weierstrass points are the intersection points of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mbox{Nulls}(Q)\cap \mbox{Nulls}(F)} . Then it can be shown that the "limit" of the bitangents of the curves in the family (which are the odd theta characteritics) are the lines connecting pairs of images of Weierstrass points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C} .
Moduli of hyperelliptic curves
Since for any set Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B} of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g+2} points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^1} there is a unique double cover Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C\to\mathbb{P}^1} with branch divisor Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B} , the coarse moduli space of hyperelliptic curves of genus Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g} is isomorphic to the moduli of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g+2} points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^1} , up to projective transformations. However, as there are more then three points in Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B} , there is a finite non-empty subset of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mbox{Aut}(\mathbb{P}^1)=\mbox{PGL}_2} that sends three of the points in Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle B} to Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 0,1,\infty} . Thus, the moduli of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g+2} distinct points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^1} up to projective transformations is a finite quotient of the space of distinct Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g-1} on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^1\setminus\{0,1,\infty\}} . Specifically this space is an irreducible affine scheme of dimension Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 2g-1} .
Compactifications of the moduli
There are two standard "natural" compactifications of the moduli of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n} distinct points on Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{P}^1} . One is the binary forms compactification Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \overline{\mathcal{B}}_n} : the GIT quotient of homogeneous polynomials of degree Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n} in two variables by the group Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle PGL_2} acting on the linear span of the variables. The second compactification is the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli of pointed curves Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n}} . For the case Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n=2g+2} Avritzer and Lange constructed a surjective morphism Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,2g+2}\to\overline{\mathcal{B}}_{2g+2}} , thus relating these compactifications of the space of hyperelliptic case. Finally, the closure of the locus of hyperelliptic curves in the moduli stack Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \overline{\mathcal{M}}_g} of curves of genus Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g} , is a degree Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle 1/2} cover of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,2g+2}} .
References
- ACGH
- Avritzer and Lange
- Dolgachev "Invariant theory"
- Harris and Morison "Moduli of curves"