Espace de modules des courbes hyperelliptiques stables et une inégalité de Cornalba-Harris-Xiao

Abstract

In this paper, we show an inequality between the degrees of the conductor and the Hodge fiber of a hyperelliptic curve above a discrete valuation ring. For that we have to show theorems about the lifting of $p$-cyclic covers in order to obtain informations on the edge of the moduli space of hyperelliptic stable curves. The inequality then comes from the geometry of this last space.

41 pages, Latex with 8 figures