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Galois Seminar

Friday, October 17, 2003 - 3:00pm

Darren Glass

Columbia University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

In this talk, based on joint work with Rachel Pries, I will discuss the moduli space of curves that admit a Z/2 x Z/2 action such that the quotient is the projective line. We will classify all such curves and then discuss how this construction can be used to give curves with prescribed invariants such as a-number and p-rank.