Reduction of the Hurwitz Space of Metacyclic Covers
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We compute the stable reduction of some Galois covers of the projective line branched at three points. These covers are constructed using Hurwitz spaces parameterizing metacyclic covers. The reduction is determined by a certain hypergeometric differential equation. This generalizes the result of Deligne and Rapoport on the reduction of the modular curve X (p).
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