On hyperelliptic modular curves over function fields
Authors:
Mihran Papikian
Affiliation:
(1) Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Abstract:
We prove that there are only finitely many modular curves of -elliptic sheaves over which are hyperelliptic. In odd characteristic we give a complete classification of such curves. The author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0801208 and Humboldt Research Fellowship.