LMFDB definition
Conductor of a genus 2 curve
The conductor of a genus 2 curve is the conductor of its Jacobian . This is a positive integer that divides the discriminant of and is divisible by every prime of bad reduction for (but not necessarily by every prime of bad reduction for ).
The valuation of at a prime satisfies the following bounds.
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