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Rachel Pries

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arXiv2005

Equiramified deformations of covers in positive characteristic

Suppose $ϕ$ is a wildly ramified cover of germs of curves defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p. We study unobstructed deformations of $ϕ$ in equal characteristic, which are equiramified in that the branch locus is constant and the ramification filtration is fixed. We show that the moduli space $M_ϕ$ parametrizing equiramified deformations of $ϕ$ is a subscheme of an explicitly constructed scheme. This allows us to give an explicit upper and lower bound for the Krull dimension $d_ϕ$ of $M_ϕ$. These bounds depend only on the ramification filtration of $ϕ$. When $ϕ$ is an abelian p-group cover, we use class field theory to show that the upper bound for $d_ϕ$ is realized.

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arXiv2005

Wildly ramified covers with large genus

We study wildly ramified G-Galois covers $ϕ:Y \to X$ branched at B (defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p). We show that curves Y of arbitrarily high genus occur for such covers even when G, X, B and the inertia groups are fixed. The proof relies on a Galois action on covers of germs of curves and formal patching. As a corollary, we prove that for any nontrivial quasi-p group G and for any sufficiently large integer $σ$ with $p \nmid σ$, there exists a G-Galois étale cover of the affine line with conductor $σ$ above the point $\infty$.

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arXiv2005

Hyperelliptic Curves with Prescribed $p$-Torsion

In this paper, we show that there exist families of curves (defined over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p >2$) whose Jacobians have interesting $p$-torsion. For example, for every $0 \leq f \leq g$, we find the dimension of the locus of hyperelliptic curves of genus $g$ with $p$-rank at most $f$. We also produce families of curves so that the $p$-torsion of the Jacobian of each fibre contains multiple copies of the group scheme $α_p$. The method is to study curves which admit an action by $(\ZZ/2)^n$ so that the quotient is a projective line. As a result, some of these families intersect the hyperelliptic locus $\CH_g$.

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