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Publications and source records attributed to Aristides Kontogeorgis.
We use tools from combinatorial group theory in order to study actions of three types on groups acting on a curve, namely the automorphism group of a compact Riemann surface, the mapping class group acting on a surface (which now is allowed to have some points removed) and the absolute Galois group $\mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\Q}/\Q)$ in the case of cyclic covers of the projective line.
The Heisenberg curve is defined to be the curve corresponding to an extension of the projective line by the Heisenberg group modulo $n$, ramified above three points. This curve is related to the Fermat curve and its group of automorphisms is studied. Also we give an explicit equation for the curve $C_3$.
The automorphism group of a curve is studied from the viewpoint of the canonical embedding and Petri's theorem. A criterion for identifying the automorphism group as an algebraic subgroup the general linear group is given. Furthermore the action of the automorphism group is extended to an action of the minimal free resolution of the canonical ring of the curve $X$.
We study the canonical model of the Artin-Schreier-Kummer-Witt flat family of curves over a ring of mixed characteristic. We first prove the relative version of a classical theorem by Petri, then use the model proposed by Bertin-Mézard to construct an explicit generating set for the relative canonical ideal. As a byproduct, we obtain a combinatorial criterion for a set to generate the canonical ideal, applicable to any curve satisfying the assumptions of Petri's theorem.
The theory of R. Crowell on derived modules is approached within the theory of non-commutative differential modules. We also seek analogies to the theory of cotangent complex from differentials in the commutative ring setting. Finally we give examples motivated from the theory of Galois coverings of curves.
We study $p$-group Galois covers $X \rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ with only one fully ramified point. These covers are important because of the Katz-Gabber compactification of Galois actions on complete local rings. The sequence of ramification jumps is related to the Weierstrass semigroup of the global cover at the stabilized point. We determine explicitly the jumps of the ramification filtrations in terms of pole numbers. We give applications for curves with zero $p$--rank: we focus on maximal curves and curves that admit a big action. Moreover the Galois module structure of polydifferentials is studied and an application to the tangent space of the deformation functor of curves with automorphisms is given.
We give some conditions under which (uniform) convergence of a family of Dirichlet series to another Dirichlet series implies the convergence of their individual coefficients and/or exponents. We give some applications to some spectral zeta functions that arise in Riemannian geometry and physics.
Let $K$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p \geq 0$. A generalized Fermat curve of type $(k,n)$, where $k,n \geq 2$ are integers (for $p \neq 0$ we also assume that $k$ is relatively prime to $p$), is a non-singular irreducible projective algebraic curve $F_{k,n}$ defined over $K$ admitting a group of automorphisms $H \cong {\mathbb Z}_{k}^{n}$ so that $F_{k,n}/H$ is the projective line with exactly $(n+1)$ cone points, each one of order $k$. Such a group $H$ is called a generalized Fermat group of type $(k,n)$. If $(n-1)(k-1)>2$, then $F_{k,n}$ has genus $g_{n,k}>1$ and it is known to be non-hyperelliptic. In this paper, we prove that every generalized Fermat curve of type $(k,n)$ has a unique generalized Fermat group of type $(k,n)$ if $(k-1)(n-1)>2$ (for $p>0$ we also assume that $k-1$ is not a power of $p$). Generalized Fermat curves of type $(k,n)$ can be described as a suitable fiber product of $(n-1)$ classical Fermat curves of degree $k$. We prove that, for $(k-1)(n-1)>2$ (for $p>0$ we also assume that $k-1$ is not a power of $p$), each automorphism of such a fiber product curve can be extended to an automorphism of the ambient projective space. In the case that $p>0$ and $k-1$ is a power of $p$, we use tools from the theory of complete projective intersections in order to prove that, for $k$ and $n+1$ relatively prime, every automorphism of the fiber product curve can also be extended to an automorphism of the ambient projective space. In this article we also prove that the set of fixed points of the non-trivial elements of the generalized Fermat group coincide with the hyper-osculating points of the fiber product model under the assumption that the characteristic $p$ is either zero or $p>k^{n-1}$.
In this paper we introduce the Yokonuma-Temperley-Lieb algebra as a quotient of the Yokonuma-Hecke algebra over a two-sided ideal generated by an expression analogous to the one of the classical Temperley-Lieb algebra. The main theorem provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the Markov trace defined on the Yokonuma-Hecke algebra to pass through to the quotient algebra, leading to a sequence of knot invariants which coincide with the Jones polynomial.
We determine all modular curves X(N) (with $N\geq 7$) which are hyperelliptic or bielliptic. We make available a proof that the automorphism group of X(N) coincides with the normalizer of $Γ(N)$ in $\operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R})$.
We give an a geometric interpretation of the Hasse-Arf theorem for function fields using the recently proved Oort conjecture.
Shimura reciprocity law allows us to verify that a modular function is a class invariant. Here we present a new method based on Shimura reciprocity that allows us not only to verify but to find new class invariants from a modular function of level $N$.
We study integral representations of holomorphic differentials on the Oort-Sekiguci-Suwa component of deformations of curves with cyclic group actions.
We study the $k[G]$-module structure of the space of holomorphic differentials of a curve defined over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic, for a cyclic group $G$ of order $p^\ell n$. We also study the relation to the Weierstrass semigroup for the case of Galois Weierstrass points.
In this paper we compute the minimal polynomials of Ramanujan values $27t_n^{-12}$ for discriminants D\equiv5mod24. Our method is based on Shimura Reciprocity Law as which was made computationally explicit by A.Gee and P. Stevenhagen. However, since these Ramanujan values are not class invariants, we present a modification of the above method which can be applied on modular functions that do not necessarily yield class invariants.
Given a finite p-group G acting on a smooth projective curve X over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p, the dimension of the tangent space of the associated equivariant deformation functor is equal to the dimension of the space of coinvariants of G acting on the space V of global holomorphic quadratic differentials on X. We apply known results about the Galois module structure of Riemann-Roch spaces to compute this dimension when G is cyclic or when the action of G on X is weakly ramified. Moreover we determine certain subrepresentations of V, called p-rank representations.
The relation of the Weierstrass semigroup with several invariants of a curve is studied. For Galois covers of curves with group $G$ we introduce a new filtration of the group decomposition subgroup of $G$. The relation to the ramification filtration is investigated in the case of cyclic covers. We relate our results to invariants defined by Boseck and we study the one point ramification case. We also give applications to Hasse-Witt invariant and symmetric semigroups.
Recently, Chan, Cooper and Sica conjectured two congruences for coefficients of classical 2F1 hypergeometric series which also arise from power series expansions of modular forms in terms of modular functions. We prove these two congruences using combinatorial properties of the coefficients.