Paper 4, Section II, H
Part II, 2014
Let be a smooth projective curve of genus over an algebraically closed field of characteristic , and suppose there is a degree 2 morphism . How many ramification points of are there?
Suppose and are distinct ramification points of . Show that , but .
Now suppose . Show that every divisor of degree 2 on is linearly equivalent to for some , and deduce that every divisor of degree 0 is linearly equivalent to for some .
Show that the subgroup of the divisor class group of has order