For infinitely many Hurwitz spaces parametrizing cyclic covers of the projective line,
we provide a method to determine the integral PEL datum of the Shimura variety
that contains the image of the Hurwitz space under the Torelli morphism.
Keywords
abelian variety, curve, Jacobian, complex multiplication,
moduli space, Hurwitz space, Shimura variety, Torelli
locus, PEL type, lattice, Hermitian form, cyclotomic field,
class group