New optimal tame towers of function fields over small finite fields

DOI10.1007/3-540-45455-1_30MaRDI QIDQ4737499zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hiren Maharaj, Henning Stichtenoth, Noam D. Elkies, Wen-Ching Winnie Li

Publication date 11 August 2004

Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2369/23690372.htm

zbMATH Keywords

Drinfeld-Vladut boundfinite fieldsgenusrational placestowers of function fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Algebraic field extensions (12F05)

Review text

A tower \(F_1\subseteq F_2\subseteq\dots\) of algebraic function fields \(F_i|\mathbb F_q\) is said to be asymptotically optimal if \(\lim_{i\to\infty} F_i(\mathbb F_q)/g_i(F_i)\) is equal to the Drinfeld-Vladut bound \(\sqrt{q}-1\). For \(q\) a square, several of such towers were explicitly constructed by \textit{A. Garcia} and \textit{H. Stichtenoth} [see e.g. Invent. Math. 121, 211--222 (1995; Zbl 0822.11078) and [J. Number Theory 61, 248--273 (1996; Zbl 0893.11047)]. In this paper, the authors construct asymptotically optimal towers for \(q=4,9,25\) and \(q=49\). These towers are new, meaning that they are not subtowers of any asymptotically optimal tower known so far. Part of the construction uses strongly the work of \textit{M. Daberkow} et al. [J. Symb. Comput. 24, No. 3--4, 267--283 (1997; Zbl 0886.11070)]. All the examples of asymptotically optimal towers known so far are of modular type [\textit{N. D. Elkies}, Prog. Math. 202, 189--198 (2001; Zbl 1031.11035)]. As an appendix to the paper, Elkies shows that the towers here are also of modular type. (Indeed, he conjectured that any asymptotically optimal tower must be of modular type.) For the entire collection see [Zbl 0992.00024].

Recommendations

• On tame towers over finite fields
• A note on optimal towers over finite fields
• Towers of Global Function Fields with Asymptotically Many Rational Places and an Improvement on the Gilbert - Varshamov Bound
• A note on towers of function fields over finite fields
• Towers of function fields over non-prime finite fields

Cited in

(20)

• On towers and composita of towers of function fields over finite fields
• Remarks on a paper by Maharaj and Wulftange
• A modular interpretation of BBGS towers
• Towers of function fields over non-prime finite fields
• On the zeta functions of an optimal tower of function fields over \(\mathbb{F}_4\)
• Modularity of asymptotically optimal towers of function fields
• Asymptotically optimal towers of curves over finite fields
• Good families of Drinfeld modular curves
• On tame towers over finite fields
• Towers of function fields and iterated means
• On asymptotically optimal towers over quadratic fields related to Gauss hypergeometric functions
• A link between minimal value set polynomials and tamely ramified towers of function fields over finite fields
• New examples of asymptotically good Kummer type towers
• Elkie's modularity conjecture
• On the construction of tame towers over finite fields
• Hilbert class field towers of function fields over finite fields and lower bounds for A(q)
• A note on subtowers and supertowers of recursive towers of function fields
• A survey on recursive towers and Ihara's constant
• New lower bounds for the Ihara function A(q) for small primes
• A note on optimal towers over finite fields

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• KANT/KASH

This page was built for publication: New optimal tame towers of function fields over small finite fields

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4737499)