The uniqueness of a plane curve of degree q attaining Sziklai's bound over F_q

DOI10.1016/J.FFA.2011.12.002MaRDI QIDQ413559zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masaaki Homma, Seon Jeong Kim

Publication date 7 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ffa.2011.12.002

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 \(d\) 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 14 \(F_4\)-rational points. This conjecture was proved by \textit{M. Homma} and \textit{S. J. Kim} [Finite Fields Appl. 16, No. 5, 315--319 (2010; Zbl 1196.14030)]. In the paper under review the authors are interested in those curves of degree \(d=q\) attaining equality in \((*)\). In fact this problem has already been considered by the authors for \(d=q+1\) [Finite Fields Appl. 17, No. 3, 240--253 (2011; Zbl 1215.14033)] and \(d\geq q+2\) [``Nonsingular plane filling curves of minimum degree over a finite field and their automorphism groups: Supplements to a work of Tallini, \url{arXiv:0903.1918}]. There is just one curve, up to projective equivalence, of degree \(q\) namely \(X^{q}-XZ^{q-1}+X^{q-1}Y-Y^q=0\) whose number of \({\mathbb F}_q\)-rational points equals \((q-1)q+1\).

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