Calculations for the etale fundamental group of curves of genus one or two

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Ramachandran, Niranjan

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The 'etale fundamental group $\pi_{1, \text{'et}}(C)$ is a profinite group which classifies covers of algebraic-geometric objects. Its abelianizaton classifies torsors over $C$ with a finite, abelian structure group. When $C$ is a curve over a number field $K$, $\pi_{1, \text{'et}}^{\textsf{ab}}(C)$ possesses a finite subgroup $\Ker(C/K)$ which records which abelian 'etale covers of $C$ come from geometry. In this thesis multiple algorithms for calculating $\Ker(E/K)$ are presented when $E$ is an elliptic curve over a number field. We indicate how to generalize one of these algorithms to the Jacobian of a genus two curve $C$, allowing for progress to be made on calculating $\Ker(C/K)$.

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