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Main Authors: Stern, Kletus, Wewers, Stefan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02638
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  • We propose a new approach to constructing semistable integral models of hypersurfaces over a discretely valued complete field K. For each stable hypersurface X over K we define a continuous stability function on the Bruhat-Tits building of PGL_{n+1}(K); its global minima control semistable hypersurface models after finite extensions of K. In particular, in residue characteristic zero the problem reduces to minimizing this function on the original building and then passing to a finite extension that turns a rational minimizer into a vertex. This extends work of Kollar and of Elsenhans-Stoll on minimal hypersurface models. We implement the resulting strategy for plane curves over p-adic number fields. In a follow-up article we use our results to compute the semistable reduction of smooth plane quartics.