Points de Weierstrass de deux families de courbes (Q4700469)

The authors consider the following two families of curves over the complex numbers: \(x^{n-2}yz+y^n+z^n=0\) (for \(n\geq 4\)) and \(u^nv+v^nw+w^nu=0\) (for \(n\geq 3\); these are called Hurwitz curves). The authors completely determine the Weierstrass points (and their gap sequences) for these curves by finding bases for the space of holomorphic differentials and by making heavy use of the automorphism groups of these curves. (For the first family, which consists of singular curves, the authors determine the Weierstrass points on the normalization.) One motivation for the study is the use of Weierstrass points in defining algebraic geometric codes. However, this would require a study of these curves over finite fields, which the authors say they will pursue elsewhere. Such a study in the case of Fermat curves was performed by \textit{B. Matzat} in his dissertation [``Über Weierstrasspunkte von Fermatkörpern'' (Universität Karlsruhe 1972)].