Nonsingularity of superelliptic Legendre inflectionary curves away from the singular fibers

Let FF be the base field, let n2n\geq 2, and let a,b,ca,b,c be positive integers. Let Cm\mathcal{C}^{\ell}_m be the inflectionary curve derived from the pencil yn=xa(x1)b(xλ)cy^n=x^a(x-1)^b(x-\lambda)^c, with distinguished points p1,p2,p3p_1,p_2,p_3. Generalized Legendre nonsingularity conjecture. Suppose that char(F)\operatorname{char}(F) is zero or sufficiently positive. For all \ell and mm, the curve Cm\mathcal{C}^{\ell}_m is nonsingular away from p1,p2,p3p_1,p_2,p_3. This generalizes the cited conjecture for Legendre inflectionary curves; the assertion concerns the absence of additional singularities and remains unverified in the supplied text.

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Ethan Cotterill, Ignacio Darago, Cristhian Garay López, Changho Han and Tony Shaska, “Arithmetic inflection of superelliptic curves”, arXiv:2110.04813 (2024).

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