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The Torelli locus and Newton polygons

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Pith's one-line read For every prime p, this paper constructs supersingular curves of genus δp(p−1)/2 for infinitely many δ, partially answering the existence question for supersingular curves.

desk verdict Solid survey that is worth a referee, but the paper's only new result—the corrected genus formula—has a real bug in the proof when the base-p expansion of δ has consecutive 1s. read the letter →

arxiv 2509.00998 v1 pith:PNRU4QLO submitted 2025-08-31 math.AG math.NT

classification math.AGmath.NT MSC 11G1014H1014H4014K1011G1811G2011M3814K15
keywords supersingularcurvesArtin–SchreiercoversJacobianisogenyNewtonpolygonTorellilocusp-rankpositivecharacteristicmoduliof
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For every prime p, this paper produces supersingular curves of genus δp(p−1)/2 whenever the base-p expansion of δ uses only the digits 0 and 1. Supersingular means the Jacobian has the most degenerate possible Frobenius action: every slope of its Newton polygon is 1/2. Since there are infinitely many such δ for each p, the construction yields infinite families of supersingular curves in every characteristic, and it partially answers the longstanding question of whether such curves exist for every genus and prime. The proof works by gluing Artin–Schreier covers into a fiber product and transferring supersingularity from the pieces to the whole Jacobian by isogeny. The same result corrects an earlier published genus formula, which had forgotten to projectivize the parameter space.

What carries the argument

The central mechanism is the fiber product of Artin–Schreier covers. An Artin–Schreier cover is the degree-p cyclic cover of P^1 given by y^p − y = h(x); here h is x f with f an additive polynomial. The paper assembles, for all f in the projectivized F_p-vector space P(L), the covers C_f and their fiber product Y over P^1. The load-bearing identity is the isogeny decomposition Jac(Y) ≃ ⊕_{f∈P(L)} Jac(C_f), cited as [KR89, Theorem B]. It transfers the supersingularity of each component (supplied by an additive-polynomial theorem for Artin–Schreier curves, [vdGvdV92, Theorem 13.7]) to the whole Jacobian. The delicate part is the count of projective classes of f with specified degrees, which co

What would settle it

Take p=3 and δ=4 (base-3 digits 11), so the paper predicts genus 12. Construct the two-dimensional F_3-space L of additive polynomials used in the proof, form the fiber product Y of the four covers y^3−y = x f over P^1, and compute the genus of the smooth model by Riemann–Hurwitz; if the result is not 12, the projectivized count is wrong. Alternatively, compute the zeta function of Y over F_3 and check that every reciprocal root has p-adic valuation 1/2; a single slope different from 1/2, or a p-rank above 0, would refute the claim.

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Core claim

The paper's own central claim is Corollary 4.22. Let p be prime and let δ be an integer whose base-p expansion has only 0 and 1 as digits; then, for g = δp(p−1)/2, there exists a smooth supersingular curve of genus g over a finite field of characteristic p. The construction chooses an F_p-vector space L of additive polynomials, builds the degree-p Artin–Schreier covers C_f : y^p − y = x f for each nonzero f in L up to F_p^*-scaling, and forms the fiber product Y over P^1. An isogeny theorem decomposes Jac(Y) as the direct sum of the Jac(C_f); each piece is supersingular because f is additive, and supersingularity is preserved under isogeny. The genus is obtained by counting projective classe

Load-bearing premise

The isogeny decomposition that identifies the Jacobian of the fiber product with the direct sum of the Jacobians of the individual Artin–Schreier covers is the load-bearing premise; if it fails for this particular fiber product, the genus count and the transfer of supersingularity collapse.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For each fixed prime p, infinitely many genera g now have a known supersingular curve, because the digit condition on δ allows infinitely many values.
  • When p=2 the digit condition is vacuous, so the construction recovers the classical fact that supersingular curves exist in every genus in characteristic 2.
  • The result gives a partial positive answer to the open question of existence of supersingular curves for all genera and primes: the known genera form an infinite, sparse set inside every characteristic.
  • The earlier corollary that motivated the construction must be replaced: its genus δp(p−1)^2/2 is corrected to δp(p−1)/2, changing the statement and the resulting count.
  • The curves produced come with an explicit isogeny class: each Jacobian is isogenous to a product of known supersingular Artin–Schreier Jacobians, so the construction is not just an existence proof.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension is to choose the additive-polynomial space L so that the component curves have Newton polygons other than the supersingular one; if the same isogeny decomposition behaves well, the construction would yield curves with prescribed mixed slopes.
  • The correction suggests that anywhere else in the survey a parameter space carries an F_p^*-scaling action, dimensions should be computed after projectivization; dropping that quotient is a natural source of genus overcounts.
  • The family only reaches genera of the form δp(p−1)/2 with digit-restricted δ; closing the gap to all genera would require genuinely new families of covers, so this result is a lower bound on the flexibility needed rather than the end of the question.
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Summary. This survey, based on the author's 2024 Arizona Winter School lectures, covers the geometry of the Torelli locus and the arithmetic invariants of Jacobians in positive characteristic. It treats abelian varieties and p-torsion invariants, existence results for curves with prescribed Newton polygons and Ekedahl–Oort types, moduli spaces and their boundaries, cyclic covers, and ℓ-adic monodromy. The manuscript is carefully referenced and explicitly corrects a prior error in [Pri19, Corollary 2.6]. Its main original contribution is Corollary 4.22, which asserts that for every δ whose base-p expansion has only digits 0 and 1, the integer g=δp(p−1)/2 is the genus of a supersingular curve over a finite field of characteristic p. The proof constructs a fiber product Y of Artin–Schreier curves from an F_p-vector space L of additive polynomials, computes its genus by counting projective classes, and transfers supersingularity via Kani–Rosen. I agree with the stress-test concern: the genus computation is incorrect for the substantial subrange where the base-p expansion of δ contains adjacent 1s. The proof works only when all blocks have length 1; the other expository sections are largely sound.

Significance. Strengths: the survey is comprehensive, well-organized, and draws on a wide literature; it gives explicit statements of open problems; it presents fully worked proofs for representative results (e.g., Theorem 5.23, Theorem 6.18 sketch); and it acknowledges earlier mistakes. If Corollary 4.22 were correct, it would provide infinite families of supersingular curves in every characteristic, partially answering Question 4.23. However, the flaw identified below means the corollary in its stated generality is not established by the given proof. The survey's overall value as an exposition survives this defect: the other existence results (Theorem 4.19, Theorem 4.21, Theorem 4.16, Theorem 6.16) are independent of the flawed step, and the manuscript remains a useful reference for the Torelli locus and Newton polygon literature. The paper's emphasis on the author's own recent work is understandable in a survey, but the status of several cited preprints should be clarified.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 4.6.4, proof of Corollary 4.22] The genus of the fiber product is overcounted when the base-p expansion of δ contains a block of two or more consecutive 1s (r_i≥1). The claim that f with a nonzero component in L_i and no components in L_j for j>i satisfies g_{C_f}=p^{u_i}(p−1)/2 requires deg(f)=p^{u_i}. But L_i is a d_i-dimensional subspace (d_i=r_i+1) of the additive polynomials of degree at most p^{u_i}; for d_i≥2, L_i necessarily contains nonzero elements of degree <p^{u_i}, whose curves have smaller genus. Example p=2, δ=3: the construction forces L_1=span{x,x^2}, so P(L) has classes [x],[x^2],[x^2+x]; the corresponding curves have genera 0,1,1 (y^2+y=x^2 is irreducible but rational), summing to 2, not δp(p−1)/2=3. For p=3, δ=4, the sum is 10, not 12. Thus the proof establishes the result only for δ with no adjacent 1s (all r_i=0).
  2. [Section 4.6.4, isogeny step] The transfer of supersingularity from the individual C_f to the fiber product Y depends on the unstated hypotheses of [KR89, Theorem B]. The author should state the theorem used and verify that Jac(Y) is isogenous to ⊕_{f∈P(L)} Jac(C_f) with no additional isogeny factors, especially when some C_f is rational (e.g., p=2, f=x). This step is load-bearing for the conclusion 'Jac(Y) is supersingular', though secondary to the genus error above.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Theorem 4.21 (Section 4.6.3)] The formula p^h(p−1)/2 is non-integral for h=0 and p=2 (the curve y^2+y=x^2 has genus 0). The statement should require h≥1, or include the p=2 caveat for the degree-1 additive polynomial R(x)=x.
  2. [Section 4.6.4] The phrase 'the vector subspace of F_p[x] of additive polynomials of degree p^{u_i}' is ambiguous: it must mean 'degree at most p^{u_i}', since the space of exact degree p^{u_i} has dimension 1 and cannot contain a subspace of dimension d_i≥2.
  3. [Theorem 9.4 (Section 9.3)] Typo: 'then S has big ℓ-adic monodromy' should read 'then W has big ℓ-adic monodromy'.
  4. [Throughout] Typos: Section 4.3 'V ershiebung' → 'Verschiebung'; Remark 4.13 'field field' → 'field'; Section 2.3.3 'sympletic group' → 'symplectic group'.
  5. [Remark 6.19, Section 8.4.2] The manuscript explicitly suppresses technical details and full statements in these places; this is acceptable for a survey but the reader should be directed to the original papers (e.g., [FvdG04], [AP08], [LMPT22]) for the complete hypotheses.
  6. [Corollary 6.27 and related citations] Several results rely on works marked 'in progress' or arXiv preprints, including [DP], [BPa], [BPb], [Pri25], [Draa], [Drab], and [KYY21]. For a journal version, the status of each citation (published, preprint, in preparation) should be indicated.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: Corollary 4.22 and the survey's central claims rest on independent external theorems; self-citations are not load-bearing.

full rationale

The manuscript is a survey/lecture-note. The one new-looking result, Corollary 4.22, is derived explicitly from two independent external inputs: Theorem 4.21 (quoted from [vdGvdV92, Thm 13.7], also [Bla12] and [BHM+16]) for the supersingularity of Artin-Schreier curves y^p-y=xR(x), and Kani-Rosen [KR89, Theorem B] for the Jacobian isogeny of the fiber product. The genus computation is a direct summation of genera of the C_f; no parameter is fitted to a subset of data and then renamed as a prediction, and no equation is used to define its own conclusion. The author's self-citations ([Pri19], [Pri25], [AP08], [LMPT19a], [LMPT22]) report previously published results or in-progress work and are not used as the sole justification for the main derivation; where they appear, the same statements are typically anchored in external results (e.g., [FvdG04], [KHS20], [Oor91], [vdGvdV92], [KR89]). The review's concern about the proof of Corollary 4.22 (possible overcount when the base-p expansion of δ has adjacent 1s) is a mathematical correctness issue, not a circularity: the proof does not assume the genus it claims to compute. The score 2 reflects the presence of minor self-citations that are not load-bearing; there are no circular steps.

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The survey rests entirely on prior literature; no constants are fitted to data. With the paper's own exception of the corrected genus formula, every claim is an imported theorem, and the ledger records the imports the new proof depends on most directly.

assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption [KR89, Theorem B]: the Jacobian of the fiber product Y = ∏_{f∈P(L)} C_f over P^1 is isogenous to ⊕_{f∈P(L)} Jac(C_f)
    Invoked directly in the proof of Corollary 4.22 (Section 4.6.4) as 'By [KR89, Theorem B]'; load-bearing for the genus computation and for supersingularity of Jac(Y).
  • domain assumption [vdGvdV92, Theorem 13.7]: curves y^p − y = xR(x) with additive R(x) of degree p^h are supersingular of genus p^h(p−1)/2
    Used to assert Jac(C_f) is supersingular for each f; also quoted as Theorem 4.21; the genus and supersingularity come from this external theorem.
  • domain assumption Grothendieck-Katz specialization and de Jong-Oort purity of Newton polygons (Theorems 6.2, 6.3)
    Core to the codimension and dimension arguments in Chapters 6 and 8, e.g., the proofs of Theorem 6.16 and Theorem 6.18.
  • domain assumption Small-genus existence results: ordinary curves of all genus (Miller 1972), supersingular genus 2 (Serre), genus 3 (Oort), genus 4 (KHS20)
    Reported as background facts in Chapter 4; the survey does not reprove them.
  • standard math Wild Riemann-Hurwitz and Deuring-Shafarevich formulas for Artin-Schreier covers
    Used for genus and p-rank computations of Artin-Schreier curves in Sections 2.4.4 and 4.6.
  • standard math Dieudonné-Manin classification and symmetric BT1 classification (Oort, Moonen)
    Underlies the definitions of Newton polygon and Ekedahl-Oort type in Chapter 3.

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This manuscript is about abelian varieties that are Jacobians of curves. I started writing it for a lecture series at the Arizona Winter School in 2024 on abelian varieties. A longer more descriptive title might be: The Torelli locus in the moduli space of abelian varieties, with applications to Newton polygons of curves in positive characteristic. To elaborate, this manuscript covers two topics: the first is about the geometry of the Torelli locus; the second is about the arithmetic invariants of abelian varieties that occur for Jacobians of smooth curves in positive characteristic.

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