Normal distribution of bad reduction

Robert J. Lemke Oliver, Daniel Loughran*, Ari Shnidman

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Abstract

We prove normal distribution laws for primes of bad semistable reduction in families of curves. As a consequence, we deduce that when ordered by height, 100% of curves in these families have, in a precise sense, many such primes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number52
JournalRamanujan Journal
Volume67
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2025

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Keywords

  • Arithmetic of curves
  • Bad reduction
  • Probabilistic number theory
  • Rational points

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