Weighted distribution of points on cyclic covers of the projective line over finite fields

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2019.01.005MaRDI QIDQ2422152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gilyoung Cheong

Publication date 18 June 2019

Published in Finite Fields and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00672

zbMATH Keywords

curves over finite fieldsdistribution of pointssieveweighted degreezeta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Zeta and (L)-functions in characteristic (p) (11M38)

Abstract: Given a finite field $mathbb{F}_q$, we study the distribution of the number of $mathbb{F}_q$-points on (possibly singular) affine curves given by the polynomial equations of the form $C_f:y^m=f(x)$, where $f$ is randomly chosen from a fixed collection $mathcalF(mathbb{F}_q)$ of polynomials in $mathbb{F}_q[x]$ with fixed $mgeq2$. Under some conditions, these equations are affine models of cyclic $m$-covers of the projective line. Previously, different authors obtained asymptotic results about distributions of points on curves associated to certain collections of polynomials $f$ defined by large degree of $f$ or large genus of the smooth, projective, and geometrically irreducible curves $ilde{C}_f$ obtained from the affine equations $C_f$, when the degree or genus goes to infinity. We summarize their strategies as a lemma, which gives a sufficient condition on the number of polynomials in a fixed collection $mathcalF(mathbb{F}_q)$ with prescribed values, that automatically gives the distribution of points on the affine curves associated to the collection. We give infinitely many new examples of collections $mathcalF(mathbb{F}_q)$ which satisfy the sufficient condition and hence produce infinitely many new distributions when a certain invariant goes to infinity. The main object of this paper is to demonstrate how changing the invariant that one takes to infinity changes the resulting distribution of points on curves.

Review text

Let \(\mathbb{F}_{q}\) be a fixed finite field and consider \(m\geqslant 2\) an integer. In this paper, the author studies the distribution of the number of \(\mathbb{F}_{q}\)-points on the affine curves \[C_{f}^{(m)}:y^{m}=f(x),\] with \(f(x)\) varying over any of infinitely many collections of 4-th power-free polynomials in \(\mathbb{F}_{q}[x]\) parametrized by integers \(N\geqslant 2\). To describe these collections of polynomials, a new invariant is introduced.

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