Stable reduction of three point covers

Wewers, Stefan

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Volume 17 (2005) no. 1, pp. 405-421.

This note gives a survey of some recent results on the stable reduction of covers of the projective line branched at three points.

Cette note est un survol des résultats récents sur la réduction semi-stable des revêtements de la droite projective ramifiés en trois points.

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