Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-geometry-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/2/c/ii/solution

A pole occurs exactly when . Thus the poles on are
Each is a double pole, since the multiplication-by-two map is locally unramified and has a double pole at . There are four distinct poles, each of order two, consistent with the degree eight.

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