One-point covers of elliptic curves and good reduction

James Phillips

Published 2017-07-27Version 1

Raynaud gave a criterion for a branched $G$-cover of curves defined over a mixed-characteristic discretely valued field $K$ with residue characteristic $p$ to have good reduction in the case of either a three-point cover of $\mathbb{P}^1$ or a one-point cover of an elliptic curve. Specifically, such a cover has potentially good reduction whenever $G$ has a Sylow $p$-subgroup of order $p$ and the absolute ramification index of $K$ is less than the number of conjugacy classes of order $p$ in $G$. In the case of an elliptic curve, we generalize this to the case in which $G$ has an arbitrarily large cyclic Sylow $p$-subgroup.