Publication:715606

DOI10.5802/AIF.2284zbMath1248.11043arXivmath/0207101OpenAlexW2325585761MaRDI QIDQ715606

Everett W. Howe, Kristin E. Lauter

Publication date: 30 October 2012

Published in: Unnamed Author (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give new arguments that improve the known upper bounds on the maximal number N_q(g) of rational points of a curve of genus g over a finite field F_q for a number of pairs (q,g). Given a pair (q,g) and an integer N, we determine the possible zeta functions of genus-g curves over F_q with N points, and then deduce properties of the curves from their zeta functions. In many cases we can show that a genus-g curve over F_q with N points must have a low-degree map to another curve over F_q, and often this is enough to give us a contradiction. In particular, we able to provide eight previously unknown values of N_q(g), namely: N_4(5) = 17, N_4(10) = 27, N_8(9) = 45, N_{16}(4) = 45, N_{128}(4) = 215, N_3(6) = 14, N_9(10) = 54, and N_{27}(4) = 64. Our arguments also allow us to give a non-computer-intensive proof of the recent result of Savitt that there are no genus-4 curves over F_8 having exactly 27 rational points. Furthermore, we show that there is an infinite sequence of q's such that for every g with 0 < g < log_2 q, the difference between the Weil-Serre bound on N_q(g) and the actual value of N_q(g) is at least g/2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207101

zbMATH Keywords

curvezeta functionrational pointWeil boundOesterlé boundSerre bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational points (14G05) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) (14G10)

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