Radicality conjecture for the Hasse–Witt ideal of genus-4 double covers

Let KK be the coefficient field, let CC be a genus-44 double cover of an elliptic curve with defining parameters a0,,a5a_0,\ldots,a_5, and let f2f_2 be the polynomial defining the nonsingularity condition. Set

IMK[a0,,a5,1/f2]I_M\subset K[a_0,\ldots,a_5,1/f_2]

to be the ideal generated by the entries of the Hasse–Witt matrix of CC.

Radicality conjecture. The ideal IMI_M is radical for every prime p5p\geq 5.

This conjecture arose from computations involving superspecial genus-44 double covers of elliptic curves, particularly those with a unique degree-two morphism to an elliptic curve. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source context.

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Primary source

Takumi Ogasawara, Ryo Ohashi, Kosuke Sakata and Shushi Harashita, “Superspecial genus-4 double covers of elliptic curves”, arXiv:2403.08139 (2024).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2111.06876, arXiv:1701.02774, arXiv:1411.3674.

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