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Galois subspaces for smooth projective curves (2005.13372v2)
Published 27 May 2020 in math.AG
Abstract: Given an embedding of a smooth projective curve $X$ of genus $g\geq1$ into $\mathbb{P}N$, we study the locus of linear subspaces of $\mathbb{P}N$ of codimension 2 such that projection from said subspace, composed with the embedding, gives a Galois morphism $X\to\mathbb{P}1$. For genus $g\geq2$ we prove that this locus is a smooth projective variety with components isomorphic to projective spaces. If $g=1$ and the embedding is given by a complete linear system, we prove that this locus is also a smooth projective variety whose positive-dimensional components are isomorphic to projective bundles over \'etale quotients of the elliptic curve, and we describe these components explicitly.