Algebraic curves with many points over the binary field

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.12.029MaRDI QIDQ2370148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sze Ling Yeo, Chaoping Xing

Publication date 22 June 2007

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.12.029

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic curvesasymptotic boundglobal function fieldrational points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Applications to coding theory and cryptography of arithmetic geometry (14G50) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05)

Review text

For any prime power \(q\) and any integer \(g>0\) denote by \(N_q(g)\) the maximum number of rational points of a curve of genus \(g\) defined over \(\mathbb{F}_q\), and let \(A(q):=\limsup_{g\to\infty}N_q(g)/g\). If \(q\) is a square, results of Ihara and Tsfasman-Vladut show that \(A(q)=\sqrt{q}-1\), but it is not known the exact value of \(A(q)\) for any nonsquare \(q\). In the paper under review, the authors show that \(A(2)\geq 97/376\), improving the best known lower bound for \(A(2)\). The result is based on a result of Serre that provides a lower bound for \(A(q)\) from the construction of a global function field \(F\) with sufficiently large \(\ell\)-rank of \(\text{Cl}(O_S)\), where \(\ell\) is a prime number, \(S\) is the complementary set of a finite set of places of \(F\) and \(O_S\) is the \(S\)-integral ring. The function field \(F\) is constructed as a composite field, of genus \(377\), of two subfields of cyclotomic function fields, with a sufficiently large number of ramified places.

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