Existence of supersingular curves of genus five via unramified double covers
Let be an odd prime, and let be a smooth curve of genus over . An unramified double cover of is a degree-two étale morphism ; by the Riemann–Hurwitz formula, has genus . A smooth curve is supersingular when its Jacobian is a supersingular principally polarized abelian variety. Supersingular genus-five curve conjecture. For every odd prime , there exists a smooth curve of genus over with an unramified double cover
such that is a supersingular curve of genus . This would establish the existence of supersingular curves of genus 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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Primary source
Jeremy Booher and Rachel Pries, “Producing supersingular curves of genus five”, arXiv:2410.20262 (2025).
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