On a number of rational points on a plane curve of low degree

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2017.01.017MaRDI QIDQ2400564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eun Ju Cheon, Masaaki Homma, Seon Jeong Kim, Nam-Yong Lee

Publication date 29 August 2017

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2017.01.017

zbMATH Keywords

finite fieldplane curverational point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational points (14G05) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Plane and space curves (14H50) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10)

Review text

Let \(C\) be a projective plane curve of degree \(d\geq 2\) defined over the finite field \(k\) with \(q\) elements. The curve \(C\) may be reducible but with no \(k\)-linear components. Let \(N_q(C)\) denote the number of \(k\)-rational points of \(C\). \textit{P. Sziklai} [Finite Fields Appl. 14, No. 1, 41--43 (2008; Zbl 1185.14017)] conjectured that \(N_q(C)\leq (d-1)q+1\, (*)\) except for the curve over \({\mathbb F}_4\) \(X^4+Y^4+Z^4+X^2Y^2+Y^2Z^2+Z^2X^2+X^2YZ+XY^2Z+XYZ^2=0\) which has \((d-1)q+2=14\) \({\mathbb F}_4\)-rational points. This conjecture was proved by \textit{M. Homma} and \textit{S. Kim} [Finite Fields Appl. 16, No. 5, 315--319 (2010; Zbl 1196.14030)]. The case where equality holds in \((*)\) with \(d\in\{q+2,q+1,q,q-1,\sqrt{q}-1,2\}\) where studied in detail by the same authors e.g. in [Finite Fields Appl. 17, No. 3, 240--253 (2011; Zbl 1215.14033); ibid. 18, No. 3, 567--586 (2012; Zbl 1243.14024)]. In general there is just one curve attaining such a bound in this case. In the paper under review, the authors investigate Skilais's bound \((*)\) above for \(q\leq 7\) and \(d\) small. For example for a curve \(C\) of degree \(5\), \(N_7(C)\leq 26<(d-1)q+1\) and the bound is attained by several curves.

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