Research

My research lies mostly in the areas of arithmetic geometry, number theory, and Galois theory. I like to study curves and abelian varieties and the geometry of their moduli spaces. I often focus on invariants of Jacobians in positive characteristic, including Newton polygons, torsion group schemes, and wild ramification. Using Galois theory, I study group actions on curves and cohomology of curves.

Here are three themes of my recent papers:
(i) the existence of curves with given p-rank, Newton polygon, or Ekedahl-Oort type;
(ii) the geometry and arithmetic of moduli spaces of curves and Shimura varieties;
(iii) etale homology of curves over number fields.

In earlier papers, I studied the semi-stable reduction, deformation, and formal patching of curves. and abelian varieties over function fields.

I am a professor in the math department at Colorado State University. My research is currently supported by NSF grant DMS-22-00418
Earlier research support includes NSF grants DMS-19-01819, DMS-15-02227, DMS-11-01712, DMS-07-01303, DMS 04-00461.
Research during summer 2015 was supported by NSA grant 131011. I was supported as a VIGRE postdoc at Columbia University from 2000-2003.

Here are links to my publications and preprints.

My arXiv papers

Submitted Mass formula for non-ordinary curves in one dimensional families (with R. Cavalieri), 24 pages.

Submitted Some cases of Oort's conjecture about Newton polygons, 10 pages.

Submitted Data for Shimura varieties intersecting the Torelli locus (with W. Li, and E. Mantovan), 27 pages

In press Doubly isogenous genus-2 curves with D4-action (with Vishal Arul, Jeremy Booher, Steven R. Groen, Everett W. Howe, Wanlin Li, Vlad Matei, and Caleb Springer), to appear in mathematics of computation.

In press The Galois action on the lower central series of the fundamental group of the Fermat curve, (with R. Davis and K. Wickelgren), to appear in Israel Journal of Math, 14 pages.

2022 The boundary of the p-rank 0 stratum of the moduli space of cyclic covers of the projective line, (with E. Ozman and C. Weir), Nagoya math journal, 248, 865-887.

2022 Realizing Artin-Schreier Covers with Minimal a-numbers in Positive Characteristic, Involve, 15, 4: 559590, Authors: Fiona Abney-McPeek, Hugo Berg, Jeremy Booher, Sun Mee Choi, Viktor Fukala, Miroslav Marinov, Theo Muller, Pawel Narkiewicz, Rachel Pries, Nancy Xu, Andrew Yuan

2022 Every BT1 group scheme appears in a Jacobian, (with D. Ulmer), Proceedings of the AMS, 150, 525-537.

2021 On BT1 group schemes and Fermat Jacobians (with D. Ulmer), New York Journal of Mathematics, 27, 705-739.

2020 Realizing Artin-Schreier covers of curves with minimal Newton polygons in positive characteristic, (with J. Booher), Journal of Number Theory, 214, 240-250.

2020 Newton polygon stratification of the Torelli locus in Unitary Shimura varieties, (with W. Li, E. Mantovan, and Y. Tang), International Mathematics Research Notices, rnaa306, 41 pages.

2020 Cohomology groups of Fermat curves via ray class fields of cyclotomic fields, (with R. Davis), Journal of Algebra, 554, 78-105.

2000 Explicit arithmetic of Jacobians of generalized Legendre curves over global function fields, (with L. Berger, C. Hall, R. Pannekoek, J. Park, R. Pries, S. Sharif, A. Silverberg, and D. Ulmer), Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 266, number 1295, 144 pages.

2019 The supersingularity of Hurwitz curves, (with D. Bisogno, E. Dawson, H. Frauenhoff, M. Lynch, A. Price, S. Somerstep, and E. Work, Involve, 12, 8:1293-1306.

2019 Newton polygons arising for special families of cyclic covers of the projective line, (with W. Li, E. Mantovan, and Y. Tang), Research in Number Theory, Research in Number Theory, 5, (1, article 12), 31 pages.

2019 Fully maximal and fully minimal abelian varieties (with V. Karemaker), Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 223, 7:3031-3056.

2019 Newton polygons of cyclic covers of the projective line branched at three points (with W. Li, E. Mantovan, and Y. Tang), Research Directions in Number Theory, Women in Numbers IV, AWM series, pages 115-132.

2019 The de Rham cohomology of the Suzuki curves, Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography, and Coding Theory, AMS, CONM, 2019, 772, 105-119.

2019 Current results on Newton polygons of curves, in Open Problems in Arithmetic Alge- braic Geometry, editor Oort, Advanced Lectures in Mathematics, 46, chapter 6, pages 179-208.

2019 On the existence of ordinary and almost ordinary Prym varieties, (with E. Ozman), Asian Journal of Mathe- matics, 23, 3:455-478.

2018 The Galois action and cohomology of a relative homology group of Fermat curves, (with R. Davis, V. Stojanoska, K. Wickelgren), Journal of Algebra, 505, pages 33-69.

2018 Reduction of dynatomic curves (with J. Doyle, H. Krieger, A. Obus, S. Rubinstein-Salzedo, L. West), Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, pages 1-52.

2018 Non-ordinary curves with a Prym variety of low p-rank, (with T. Celik, Y. Elias, B. Gunes, R. Newton, E. Ozman, L. Thomas), Proceedings of the Women in Numbers Europe-2 Conference, pages 117-158.

2018 Abhynakar's conjectures in Galois theory: current status and future directions (with D. Harbater, A. Obus, K. Stevenson), Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 55, 239-287.

2016 Arithmetic of Abelian Varieties in Artin-Schreier Extensions (with D. Ulmer). Transactions of the AMS, 368 , 12:8553-8595.

2016 2016 Galois action on the homology of Fermat curves, (with R. Davis, V. Stojanoska, K. Wickelgren), Directions in Number Theory: proceedings of the 2014 WIN3 workshop, Springer XV, pages 57-86.

2016, Hurwitz theory in positive characteristic, Appendix A, pages 143-150, in Riemann surfaces and algebraic curves: a first course in Hurwitz theory, by R. Cavalieri and E. Miles, London Mathematical Society Student texts #87, Cambridge University Press.

2015 Superspecial rank of supersingular abelian varieties and Jacobians (with Jeff Achter), Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, 27, 3:605-624.

2015 Ekekdahl-Oort type of Jacobians of Hermitian curves (with Colin Weir). Asian Journal of Math. 19-5 (2015), 845-870.

2014 Generic Newton polygons for curves of given p-rank (with Jeff Achter). Algebraic Curves and Finite Fields, Cryptography and Other Applications Editors: Niederreiter, Ostafe, Panario, Winterhof Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics, 16, 1-21.

2013 Newton polygons for a variant of the Kloosterman family (with Bellowin, Garthwaite, Ozman, Williams, Zhu), Contempory Mathematics, 606, (2013), 47-63.

2013 Ekedahl-Oort strata of hyperelliptic curves in characteristic 2 (with Arsen Elkin), Algebra and Number Theory 7-3, (2013), 507-532.

2013 The a-numbers of Jacobians of Suzuki Curves (with Friedlander, Garton, Malmskog, Weir), Proceedings of the AMS, 141, (2013), 3019-3028.

2013 Families of Artin-Schreier curves with Cartier-Manin matrix of constant rank (with Shawn Farnell), Linear Algebra and its Applications, 439 (2013), 7:2158-2166.

2012 The automorphism groups of a family of maximal curves (with Robert Guralnick and Beth Malmskog), Journal of Algebra, 361, (2012), 92-106.

2012 Alternating group covers of the affine line (with Jeremy Muskat), Israel Journal of Mathematics, 187 , (2012), 117-139.

2012 The p-rank stratification of Artin-Schreier curves (with Hui June Zhu), Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 62, (2012) 2: 707-726.

2011 The p-rank strata of the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves (with Jeff Achter), Advances in Mathematics 227 , (2011), 1846-1872.

2011 A survey of Galois theory of curves in characteristic p (with Kate Stevenson), Fields Institute Communications 60 , American Mathematical Society, Providence RI, (2011), 169-191.

2011 Semi-direct Galois covers of the affine line, (with Linda Gruendken, Laura Hall-Seelig, Bo-Hae Im, Ekin Ozman, and Katherine Stevenson) Fields Institute Communications, 60, AMS, Providence RI, (2011), 201-210.

2010 Wild cyclic-by-tame extensions (with Andrew Obus), Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 214, (2010), 5:565-573

2009 The p-torsion of curves with large p-rank, International Journal of Number Theory, 5 , (2009), 6:1103-1115.

2008 Curves of given p-rank with trivial automorphism group (with Jeff Achter and Darren Glass), Michigan J. Math., 56 , (2008), 3:583-592.

2008 Note A short guide to p-torsion of abelian varieties in characteristic p, Computational Arithmetic Geometry, CONM, 463, (2008) 121-129.

2008 Monodromy of the p-rank strata of the moduli space of curves (with Jeff Achter), International Mathematics Research Notices, 15, (2008) Art. ID rnn053, 25 pages.

2007 Hyperelliptic curves with a-number 1 in small characteristic (with Arsen Elkin), Albanian Journal of Math, 1, (2007), 4:245-252.

2007 The integral monodromy of hyperelliptic and trielliptic curves (with Jeff Achter), Math. Annalen, 338 (2007), (1):187-206.

2006 Wildly ramified covers with large genus, J. Number Theory, 119 (2006) 2:194-209.

2005 Corrigendum Hyperelliptic curves with prescribed p-torsion (with Darren Glass) Manuscripta, 117 (2005) 3:299-317.

2005 Questions on p-torsion of hyperelliptic curves (with Darren Glass)
in Problems from the 2004 Leiden Workshop, Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico, 113 (2005) 145-149.

2005 On the moduli space of Klein four covers of the projective line (with Darren Glass)
in Computational Aspects of Algebraic Curves, ed. T. Shaska, Lecture Notes Series in Computing, 13 (2005).

2005 Jacobians of quotients of Artin-Schreier curves,
in Recent progress in arithmetic and algebraic geometry, CONM. 386 (2005) 145-156.

2003 Rigidity, reduction, and ramification (with Irene Bouw), Math. Annalen. 326 (2003) 4: 802-824.

2003 Conductors of wildly ramified covers III, Pacific J.Math. 221 (2003) 1:163-182.

2002 Conductors of wildly ramified covers II, C.R. Acad Sci. Paris, Ser. I 335 (2002) 484-487.

2002 Conductors of wildly ramified covers I, C.R. Acad Sci. Paris, Ser. I 335 (2002) 481-484.

2002 Families of wildly ramified covers of curves, Amer. J. Math. 124 (2002), 4:737-768.

2000 Construction of covers with formal and rigid geometry,
in Courbes semi-stables et groupe fondamental en geometrie algebrique, Progr. Math. 187 (2000) 157-167.

My dissertation, "Formal Patching and Deformation of Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves" was completed in May 2000 at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Professor D. Harbater.

Papers in preparation:
pdf Equiramified deformations of covers in positive characteristic, in preparation.

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