On rationality of the intersection points of a line with a plane quartic

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-13797-6_16MaRDI QIDQ3578477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roger Oyono, Christophe Ritzenthaler

Publication date 20 July 2010

Published in Arithmetic of Finite Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0873

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study the rationality of the intersection points of certain lines and smooth plane quartics C defined over F_q. For q geq 127, we prove the existence of a line such that the intersection points with C are all rational. Using another approach, we further prove the existence of a tangent line with the same property as soon as the characteristic of F_q is different from 2 and q geq 66^2+1. Finally, we study the probability of the existence of a rational flex on C and exhibit a curious behavior when the characteristic of F_q is equal to 3.

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