Deciding trigonality of algebraic curves

Details Deciding trigonality of algebraic curves Deciding trigonality of algebraic curves

2011-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4689v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

Extended abstract, 5 pages. Presented at MEGA 2009

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Let C be a non-hyperelliptic algebraic curve of genus at least 3. Enriques and Babbage proved that its canonical image is the intersection of the quadrics that contain it, except when C is trigonal (that is, it has a linear system of degree 3 and dimension 1) or C is isomorphic to a plane quintic (genus 6). We present a method to decide whether a given algebraic curve is trigonal, and in the affirmative case to compute a map from C to the projective line whose fibers cut out the linear system. It is based on the Lie algebra method presented in Schicho (2006). Our algorithm is part of a larger effort to determine whether a given algebraic curve admits a radical parametrization.

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