Supersingular genus-six curves from double covers branched at two points

Let pp be an odd prime. Let XX' be a smooth curve of genus 33 over Fp\overline{\mathbf F}_p, and let π:YX\pi':Y'\to X' be a double cover branched at two points. By the Riemann–Hurwitz formula, YY' has genus 66. Branched-cover supersingularity conjecture. For every odd prime pp, there exist XX' and π\pi' as above such that YY' is a supersingular curve of genus 66. The conjecture is motivated by the dimension and codimension calculation for genus-three curves and by the analogous genus-four construction, but remains open in general.

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Jeremy Booher and Rachel Pries, “Producing supersingular curves of genus five”, arXiv:2410.20262 (2025).

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