A heuristic for the distribution of point counts for random curves over a finite field

DOI10.1098/rsta.2014.0310zbMath1397.11108arXiv1410.7373OpenAlexW3106224243WikidataQ42559276 ScholiaQ42559276MaRDI QIDQ2955767

Jeffrey D. Achter, Daniel Erman, Kiran S. Kedlaya, Melanie Matchett Wood, David Zureick-Brown

Publication date: 13 January 2017

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7373

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributioncohomology of moduli spacesrandom algebraic curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15)

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