Existence of supersingular curves of genus five via unramified double covers

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Let pp be an odd prime, and let XX be a smooth curve of genus 33 over F‾p\overline{\mathbf F}_p. An unramified double cover of XX is a degree-two étale morphism π:Y→X\pi:Y\to X; by the Riemann–Hurwitz formula, YY has genus 55. A smooth curve is supersingular when its Jacobian is a supersingular principally polarized abelian variety. Supersingular genus-five curve conjecture. For every odd prime pp, there exists a smooth curve XX of genus 33 over F‾p\overline{\mathbf F}_p with an unramified double cover

π:Y→X\pi:Y\to X

such that YY is a supersingular curve of genus 55. This would establish the existence of supersingular curves of genus 55 in odd characteristic through the Prym construction described in the paper; the paper provides evidence for the conjecture, while its general validity remains open.

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

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