Coverings of curves with asymptotically many rational points

DOI10.1006/jnth.2002.2804zbMath1055.11040arXivmath/9908152MaRDI QIDQ1864859

Hiren Maharaj, Wen-Ch'ing Winnie Li

Publication date: 23 March 2003

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9908152

zbMATH Keywords

class field tower; Drinfeld module; Hilbert class field; narrow ray class field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14H25: Arithmetic ground fields for curves

11G20: Curves over finite and local fields

11G09: Drinfel'd modules; higher-dimensional motives, etc.

Related Items

Curves of every genus with many points. II: Asymptotically good families, New lower bounds for the Ihara function \(A(q)\) for small primes

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