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Michael Corin Harrison

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arXiv2014

A New Automorphism Of X0(108)

Let X0(N) denote the modular curve classifying elliptic curves with a cyclic N-isogeny, A0(N) its group of algebraic autmorphisms and B0(N) the subgroup of automorphisms coming from matrices acting on the upper halfplane. In a well-known paper, Kenku and Momose showed that A0(N) and B0(N) are equal (all automorphisms come from matrix action) when X0(N) has genus at least 2, except for N = 37 and 63. However, there is a mistake in their analysis of the N = 108 case. In the style of Kenku and Momose, we show that B0(108) is of index 2 in A0(108) and construct an explicit new automorphism of order 2 on a canonical model of X0(108).

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arXiv2011

Explicit Solution By Radicals, Gonal Maps and Plane Models of Algebraic Curves of Genus 5 or 6

We give explicit computational algorithms to construct minimal degree (always $\le 4$) ramified covers of $\Prj^1$ for algebraic curves of genus 5 and 6. This completes the work of Schicho and Sevilla (who dealt with the $g \le 4$ case) on constructing radical parametrisations of arbitrary genus $g$ curves. Zariski showed that this is impossible for the general curve of genus $\ge 7$. We also construct minimal degree birational plane models and show how the existence of degree 6 plane models for genus 6 curves is related to the gonality and geometric type of a certain auxiliary surface.

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