Nonsingularity away from the singular fibers for Weierstrass inflectionary curves

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Let n=2ℓn=2\ell, let FF have characteristic zero or sufficiently positive characteristic different from three, and let Cmℓ⊂P(1,2,1)\mathcal{C}^{\ell}_m\subset\mathbb{P}(1,2,1) be the inflectionary curve from yn=x3+λx+2y^n=x^3+\lambda x+2. Let ζ\zeta be a primitive cube root of unity. Weierstrass nonsingularity conjecture. For every m≥3m\geq3, Cmℓ\mathcal{C}^{\ell}_m is nonsingular away from the three points (ζ−j,−3ζj,1)(\zeta^{-j},-3\zeta^j,1) for j∈{0,1,2}j\in\{0,1,2\}. These points correspond to the singular fibers of the Weierstrass pencil; the conjecture predicts that no further singularities occur, and is not resolved 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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