Iterating the hessian: a dynamical system on the moduli space of elliptic curves and dessins d'enfants

dc.creatorPopescu-Pampu, Patrick
dc.date2008-09-25
dc.date2009-05-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:11:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:11:41Z
dc.descriptionEach elliptic curve can be embedded uniquely in the projective plane, up to projective equivalence. The hessian curve of the embedding is generically a new elliptic curve, whose isomorphism type depends only on that of the initial elliptic curve. One gets like this a rational map from the moduli space of elliptic curves to itself. We call it the hessian dynamical system. We compute it in terms of the $j$-invariant of elliptic curves. We deduce that, seen as a map from a projective line to itself, it has 3 critical values, which correspond to the point at infinity of the moduli space and to the two elliptic curves with special symmetries. Moreover, it sends the set of critical values into itself, which shows that all its iterates have the same set of critical values. One gets like this a sequence of dessins d'enfants. We describe an algorithm allowing to construct this sequence.
dc.description13 pages and 11 figures. Compared with the first version, the important remark 5.2 was added. To appear in "Noncommutativity and Singularity", Proceedings of French-Japanese Symposia, IHES, 2006. J. P. Bourguignon, M.Kotani, Y.Maeda, N.Tose eds, Advanced Studies in Pure Maths 55, 2009
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4340
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4340
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/229359
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subject14B05, 32S25, 32S45
dc.titleIterating the hessian: a dynamical system on the moduli space of elliptic curves and dessins d'enfants
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