{ "id": "2305.15874", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-05-25T09:10:26.000Z", "updated": "2023-05-25T09:10:26.000Z", "title": "Normal distribution of bad reduction", "authors": [ "Robert J. Lemke Oliver", "Daniel Loughran", "Ari Shnidman" ], "comment": "12 pages, comments welcome", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We prove normal distribution laws for primes of bad semistable reduction in families of curves. As a consequence, we deduce that when ordered by height, $100\\%$ of curves in these families have, in a precise sense, many such primes.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-05-25T09:10:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11G30", "60F05" ], "keywords": [ "bad reduction", "normal distribution laws", "precise sense", "bad semistable reduction" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }