Statistics of the Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves over finite fields

DOI10.4310/MRL.2012.V19.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ2391600zbMATHFDO

Authors Maosheng Xiong, Alexandru Zaharescu

Publication date 5 August 2013

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4621

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian distributionclass numberJacobianzeta functions of curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Zeta and (L)-functions in characteristic (p) (11M38) Arithmetic theory of polynomial rings over finite fields (11T55)

Abstract: Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve of genus $gge1$ over a finite field $F$ of cardinality $q$. In this paper, we first study $$, the size of the Jacobian of $C$ over $F$ in case that $F(C)/F(X)$ is a geometric Galois extension. This improves results of Shparlinski cite{shp}. Then we study fluctuations of the quantity $$ as the curve $C$ varies over a large family of hyperelliptic curves of genus $g$. For fixed genus and growing $q$, Katz and Sarnak showed that $$ is distributed as the trace of a random $2gimes2g$ unitary symplectic matrix. When the finite field is fixed and the genus grows, we find the limiting distribution of $$ in terms of the characteristic function. When both the genus and the finite field grow, we find that $$ has a standard Gaussian distribution.

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