{ "id": "1205.6409", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-05-29T16:21:13.000Z", "updated": "2012-05-31T21:09:40.000Z", "title": "Curves which cannot be defined over an extension of degree at most two over the field of moduli", "authors": [ "Ruben A. Hidalgo", "Yolanda Fuertes" ], "comment": "This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in the provided example", "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.CV" ], "abstract": "It has been conjectured that every algebraic curve may be defined either over its field of moduli or over an extension of degree two of it. In this paper we provide a negative answer to it by giving examples of hyperelliptic curves which cannot be defined over an extension of degree at least two over their fields of moduli.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-05-31T21:09:40.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14H37", "14H45", "30F10" ], "keywords": [ "algebraic curve", "hyperelliptic curves", "negative answer" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1205.6409H" } } }