Supersingular genus-six curves from double covers branched at two points
Supersingular genus-six curves from double covers branched at two points
Let be an odd prime. Let be a smooth curve of genus over , and let be a double cover branched at two points. By the Riemann–Hurwitz formula, has genus . Branched-cover supersingularity conjecture. For every odd prime , there exist and as above such that is a supersingular curve of genus . 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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