CLASSIFYING FAMILIES OF SUPERELLIPTIC CURVES

Abstract

This paper is the first version of a project of classifying all superelliptic curves of genus $g\le 48$ according to their automorphism group. We determine the parametric equations in each family, the corresponding signature of the group, the dimension of the family, and the inclussion among such families. At a later stage it will be determined the decomposition of the Jacobians and each locus in the moduli spaces of curves.