LMFDB definition

Conductor of a genus 2 curve

The conductor NN of a genus 2 curve X/QX/\Q is the conductor of its Jacobian Jac(X)\mathrm{Jac}(X). This is a positive integer that divides the discriminant of XX and is divisible by every prime of bad reduction for Jac(X)\mathrm{Jac}(X) (but not necessarily by every prime of bad reduction for XX).

The valuation of NN at a prime pp satisfies the following bounds.

pp:223355≥7\ge 7
vp(N)v_p(N):202010109944

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