The a-number of hyperelliptic curves

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-74998-3_7zbMATH Open1445.11052arXiv1703.03516OpenAlexW2595973296MaRDI QIDQ1716096FDOQ1716096

Sarah Frei

Publication date: 29 January 2019

Abstract: It is known that for a smooth hyperelliptic curve to have a large $a$-number, the genus must be small relative to the characteristic of the field, $p>0$, over which the curve is defined. It was proven by Elkin that for a genus $g$ hyperelliptic curve $C$ to have $a_C=g-1$, the genus is bounded by $g<frac3p2$. In this paper, we show that this bound can be lowered to $g<p$. The method of proof is to force the Cartier-Manin matrix to have rank one and examine what restrictions that places on the affine equation defining the hyperelliptic curve. We then use this bound to summarize what is known about the existence of such curves when $p=3,5$ and $7$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03516

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-rankcurvehyperelliptic\(a\)-numberCartier operatorCartier-Manin matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Arithmetic ground fields for curves (14H25)

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